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For three miles beyond what was once the eastern edge of the Great Salt Lake in Utah, cottonwood and birch trees stand in 9 ft. of brackish water, their trunks burned and their branches leafless. Dead wood and decaying, bloated carp litter the shore. Roads are flooded out, towers for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Preserving the Great Salt Lake | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

They looked like angry apparitions, these shawled women with arms stretched up to God and faces gnarled by grief. They came not because they remembered, but because they resolutely refused to let others forget. What has become of their husbands, their brothers and sons who have vanished during nearly a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: Remembering | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

The illegal visitors had one more major obstacle to pass: an INS checkpoint on Interstate 5, where agents kept a sharp watch for vehicles heavily weighted toward the rear or bouncing oddly. Those are clues that pollos may be hiding in the trunks of cars or under the floorboards of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Are Overwhelmed | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

For generations of elegant travelers, Louis Vuitton has been the last word in luxury luggage. Marlene Dietrich once crammed 23 trunks bearing Vuitton's famous initials into her limousine before a trip. Now Paris-based Vuitton, whose retail prices range from $235 for a duffel bag to $1,225...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Public: Unlocking a 130-Year-Old Firm | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

Hawaii was pure holiday. Although the President carried his three-inch-thick briefing book as he padded to the beach in white bathing trunks Easter Monday, he mostly ignored it. Instead, he tried some broken-field running, using a coconut as a surrogate football, then exhibited a leisurely overhand crawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History Beckons Again | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

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