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...highway from Concord, drifting into the Amsokeag-Bridge-Manchester exit, past the big Holiday Inn ("Welcome Gv Reagan Wife"), and on the right the billboard squats in a weedy lot. "Make the Dollar Sound as Gold--Vote LaRouche." And on the blue-tinted forehead of this Democrat, in red spray paint, someone has scrawled a swastika...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Getting His 2 Per Cent Worth | 3/6/1980 | See Source »

...deck. By 11:30 the disabled ship's Greek-born captain, Dimitrios Georgoulis, and his 22 crewmen, most, of them Tunisians, had pulled away in two lifeboats, their luggage neatly stowed. Six minutes later the tanker's stern lifted; it went down in a churning maelstrom of spray and debris, plunging nearly two miles to the bottom of one of the Atlantic Ocean's deepest trenches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH SEAS: Sinking a Supertanker | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...friends. They fall by the score while crossing exposed rivers and valleys, and stumble upward to their deaths during assaults on heavily fortified mountaintops. Spandaus and Schmeissers perforate them; eighty-eights and "Moaning Minnies" dismember them. The term "enfilading fire" recurs. It means that the enemy can spray shells and bullets up and down one's position as if he were watering a garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arms and the Young Man | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...only permanent solution is to spray the whole house, otherwise they'll keep coming back, Amy J. Gould '81, a circulator of the statement, said yesterday...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Winthrop Students Decry Mouse Population Boom | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...seventh week of the cruel stalemate over the hostages, tensions mounted again-in Iran, the U.S. and also in Panama, where the deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi took up residence on the Pacific resort island of Contadora. In Panama City, several hundred leftists marched through the streets, spray-painting FUERA EL SHAH (Shah get out) on trees and walls and hurling stones at the U.S. embassy. A squad of 30 helmeted officers mounted on motorcycles charged a ragtag band of 100 marchers, led by part-time Radio Commentator Miguel Bernal. The police and National Guard beat the demonstrators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Cruel Stalemate Drags On | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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