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...away in a blaze of fire and smoke shortly after midnight on Dec. 7, 1972. The glow was seen by residents of the Great Smoky Mountains, 500 miles away from Cape Canaveral. The spectacle of the ST58 launch should be even more brilliant: the shuttle's engines and twin solid-fuel rocket boosters will generate a temperature of 6,000° F, double that produced by the Apollo...
...Communist Party Chief Yuri Andropov started his campaign against "shoddy work, inactivity and irresponsibility" after coming to power last November, the Soviet press has published countless such examples of what he had in mind. Last week the Kremlin stepped up the offensive by announcing measures aimed at combatting the twin evils of absenteeism and alcoholism...
...Manitoba prairie when Pilot Bob Pearson saw a warning light blink on. The message: fuel in one tank had run out. Seconds later, one engine of the brand-new Boeing 767 coughed and died. As Pearson attempted to restart it, five more warning lights began to flash. Then, the twin-engine jet's other engine stopped. There was nothing but an eerie and chilling silence...
Staff Writer John Greenwald, working on his first cover, agrees. Says he: "IBM is one of the great stories in U.S. business." Before joining TIME in November 1981, Greenwald was for four years business editor of the Minneapolis Star, where he gained a special perspective on IBM. "The Twin Cities area is home to three of the other major computer manufacturers, Control Data, Honeywell and Univac," says Greenwald. "Anyone doing anything in computers faces the formidable task of competing with IBM, and I came to learn a lot about IBM just by observing how the other companies coped with...
...does Author Richard Grenier, a sometime scriptwriter and now film critic for Commentary. Grenier's best scenes vividly mix farce and mayhem, but they remain set pieces. He is less concerned with tightening the strands of his narrative than with slashing away at the twin hypocrisies of Celluloid City and oil country. From Libya to Egypt to Iran his film makers go, struggling to shore up their collapsing finances, and everywhere they encounter nothing but fanaticism, ignorance, treachery and greed. Readers interested in a balanced view of the Arab world should look elsewhere. If life is not fair...