Word: trails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ralph Paffenbarger gives strong evidence that burning up the calories will lower the chance of heart trouble, but does Ralph follow his own advice? Emphatically, yes! He recently finished a 100-mile trail race in northern California, and was one of three finishers out of twelve starters in the time of 26 hours...
...carved into simple bracelets and rings. But the best goes on to Hong Kong, where each year upwards of 8,000 skilled artisans turn the gems tone into 2.5 million pieces of fine jewelry and sculpture. TIME'S David Lawton followed the smugglers' jade trail from Bangkok across the Thai border into the Terry and the Pirates country of southern Burma, where the rebel Karenni tribe holds sway as one of the principal groups of jade middlemen. His report...
...Celtics trail the 76ers by a point late in the game. Boston calls time-out, and the players huddle around Sanders to discuss strategy. "Well, gentlemen," says Satch, "does anyone have any ideas...
...leering sex jokes on ABC, consummation is intriguingly scarce. Characters who want to have sex rarely do; double-entendre punch lines often trail off into pregnant pauses; Suzanne Somers, the blonde bombshell comedienne of Three's Company, never does fall out of her many scanty outfits. On those rare occasions when characters do philander-notably on Soap-a price is exacted, either in the form of acute mental anguish or Old Testament-style retribution. The conflict between current manners and old-fashioned values is powerfully frustrating; every time a show heats viewers up, it douses them with a cold...
Kowal's latest finding was based on photographs taken in mid-October through the Hale Observatories' 122-cm. (48-in.) Schmidt telescope atop California's Mount Palomar. A microscopic examination of photographic plates exposed on successive nights revealed a short, faint trail of light between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus; the object that made it appeared to be moving in relation to the stars that formed the background. Kowal promptly called Brian Marsden of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., for help in verifying his discovery. Marsden, who serves as a clearinghouse...