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...psych and soap-opera counseling stir the air waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Dial Dr. Toni for Therapy | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

...mission was on. The commander received his orders. The soldiers and airmen were watching his face. He turned and jammed his fist into the air with his thumb up. Shouts shattered the stillness. It was a brief burst. There were no bands and no U.S. flags. The next stir was the big turbo props coming to life-then the transports lifting off into tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The Essence of Courage | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

...same nuclear facility in South Carolina where he had performed his detection feat, he found that the erstwhile ghosts do indeed seem to have substance. Not much even on the nuclear scale, perhaps only one ten-thousandth of the mass of the electron, but big enough to stir the world of physics. If his results are right, they may help explain the sun's puzzling behavior and perhaps hint at the universe's ultimate fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Not-So-Ghostly Particle | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

...similar spot on Republican John Anderson's independent ticket. Obviously such a remark must have given CBS fits, putting in jeopardy in the midst of the campaign its star anchorman's reputation for neutrality. Cronkite, off on a sailing holiday, said he had been "misinterpreted." The stir makes a point: as the man the country trusts most to bring it the news, Cronkite seems to have a calm and sensible response to events. What if he were put in charge of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Cronkite for Vice President? | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

Saudi Arabian displeasure over a British-American television production, Death of a Princess, continued to stir up diplomatic storms last week. The "dramatized documentary," which re-enacts the execution of a Saudi princess and her lover in 1977 for adultery, had already aroused a howl of Saudi protest three weeks ago when it was first shown over Britain's independent television network. But when the government-controlled British Broadcasting Corporation showed another documentary on Saudi Arabia that, like the Princess film, was highly uncomplimentary to Saudi royal life, Riyadh's wrath boiled over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: Film Fallout | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

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