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While the rover's remote-controlled camera-provided spectators on earth with a grandstand view, Orion's upper stage shot up above a spray of colored debris from the lower stage's protective gold foil. The camera worked so well that Houston could follow Orion's ascent for nearly two minutes, until the little craft was no more than a speck of light against the utter blackness of space. Later, after Orion locked with Casper in moon orbit, Young and Duke rejoined Mattingly, who could not resist twitting them about all the dust and debris they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Treasure from the Moon | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

...Spray Mace. Lewisburg is one of the best federal prisons, and Hoffa, assigned to a job of recycling old mattresses into new ones, had one of the easier situations. Nevertheless, he hated prison for its deliberately debilitating effect on mind and body. "Everything that goes on is designed to strip you of your manhood. You only get medical attention if you're ready for an operation. The food is horrible. There aren't sufficient exercise facilities, and a lot of people are afraid to expose themselves to possible violence or trouble, so they stay in their cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRISONS: Jimmy the Reformer | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

...narrowly saved when a bomb in the cockpit was defused just minutes before detonation. Dynamite was found on a United Air Lines flight into Seattle. And, in a fourth incident not disclosed by the Government, TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin learned that two plastique explosive devices were concealed in spray cans aboard a United 727. The cans were discovered when a federal agent searching a suspected suitcase noticed a can of Right Guard and of Noxzema seemed too heavy. There were massive delays for passengers everywhere. and at President Nixon's order all U.S. airlines began a major tightening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Holding Up an Industry | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...Media Men caught it all--live TV in color via satellite. What they failed to show behind the spray paint veneer was the burial of the old containment policy ideology...

Author: By Tom Crane, | Title: Nixon's Trip: Wrap Up | 3/17/1972 | See Source »

...green. But Elizabeth Taylor outshone everyone at the costume ball with the 69.4-carat, million-dollar "Burton Diamond" at her throat, and her black hair caught up in a net studded with 1,000 small diamonds and edged with 25 larger ones. Perhaps to relieve the monotony, her feather spray was held in place by a 20-carat emerald. Estimated total worth of Liz's jewelry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 13, 1971 | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

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