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...parks promote soft drinks and fast foods. They dispense a dizzily dyspeptic array of instant edibles from storefronts with names like Yum Yum Palace, Mustard's Last Stand and the Hokey Pokey. Heroic exceptions to the no-brew stand-up eating syndrome are the Busch Gardens, near Williamsburg, Va., and Tampa, Fla. Since both parks are also the sites of Anheuser-Busch breweries, and their owners are understandably interested in promoting suds consumption, both spots have "hospitality centers" that actually give away beer (Cokes and Sprites cost 50?). Busch Gardens' Old Country, near Williamsburg, has a vast Festhaus...
Richard H. Timberlake III Arlington, Va...
Died. Wernher von Braun, 65, German-born impresario of the U.S. space program; of cancer; in Alexandria, Va. (see SCIENCE...
Today, under its new director, Admiral Stansfield Turner, the CIA is expanding its press relations. But the new openness will take some getting used to at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., says Washington Correspondent Bruce Nelan. Last week when Photographer Stanley Tretick visited to take exclusive color pictures for our story, the halls were festooned with warnings to agents operating under cover: TIME FILMING TODAY IN BLDG...
...Washington talked directly about the Central Intelligence Agency. It was obliquely referred to as "the pickle factory" or "our friends" or "across the river" or, more openly, "the agency" or "the company." When the CIA's $46 million headquarters opened along George Washington Memorial Parkway in suburban Langley, Va., in 1961, the deceptive highway sign said only BPR, for Bureau of Public Roads. Even Soviet KGB agents laughed at that. Finally the sign was changed to read: CIA. Now candor has gone further. For the first time, a photographer-from TIME-has been allowed to take some pictures...