Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death of John Paul last week, after only 33 days as Pope, left the world stunned, and prompted TIME'S third cover story on the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church in two months. Whoever is elected as John Paul's successor, and wherever he leads his church, TIME will report on the man and his achievements with the vigor that Henry Luce, half a century ago, felt they deserved...
...overcrowded airports. Nowhere is this more true than in California, which now has 113,000 certified pilots. Van Nuys airport, the busiest general aviation field in the U.S., is host to an army of 13,557 pilots and an armada of 1,260 planes. It is, in fact, the third busiest airport in the country, after Chicago's O'Hare and Atlanta. By contrast, commercial airfields in the U.S. have shrunk from 660 in 1966 to 400 today, of which a mere 23 serve 70% of all commercial aircraft activity...
...troops into combat in Korea and Viet Nam with such gallantry that he was twice awarded the Silver Star, the nation's third highest combat medal. He moved easily from battlefield to classroom, from Pentagon desk to international command, gathering ribbons and rank along the way and, last year, becoming the youngest four-star general in the Army. Then, last spring, Sam Sims Walker became trapped in a bureaucratic Pentagon crossfire, and last week he resigned from the Army after more than 32 years of service-at the same time bringing into the open a battle between generals...
Test results have shown that one-third of the freshmen at state colleges in New Jersey are almost illiterate. So the state senate passed a bill requiring all public high school students to demonstrate at least a ninth-grade level of proficiency in reading, writing and arithmetic before qualifying for a state-approved diploma. Then Senator Francis X. Herbert, who doubles as a high school English teacher, discovered that the senators could also use some drill in the fundamentals. The bill misspelled explicit as explict, minimum as minmum and remediation as remediaton. Conceded Sponsor Matthew Feldman: "Sure...
Alexander's round started out inauspiciously when he double bogeyed the first hole and then three putted the third through fifth on sluggish greens. After shooting a 40 going out, he careened into the clubhouse with an even par 35 for the back nine by tucking a 155-yd. eight-iron two feet from the pin on number...