Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Forget the joke of a meet against the Dutch national team. That 44-41 win was garnered in slow motion. Cruise speed will return this weekend...
Understandably so. Every weekend the pages of TIME are composed on film at Chicago's R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. printing plant, and a set of negatives is flown to each of our other seven printing plants throughout the U.S. and seven more scattered around the world. If the film packets leave Chicago late, special efforts must be made to overcome the delay. What's more, some four-color ad pages are printed in Chicago and then sent by truck to U.S. plants for binding in the final copies...
Such feats of improvisation, however, will soon be the stuff of nostalgia, tales to be recounted around a warm computer on a snowy weekend. Later this year TIME will start transmitting text and pictures electronically to its printing plants, a technological advance that will help our readers get the latest fast-breaking news, no matter how much it may storm in Chicago or anywhere around the world...
...Winnebago lurking on the shore of Chesapeake Bay one recent weekend looked like any other mobile camper, but with the radio scanner and communication equipment inside, it resembled a war room in the Pentagon. As a command post for the onshore operations of a marijuana-smuggling confederacy, it had been monitoring the area's police for a week, preparing for a mother ship's arrival in nearby waters. The camper was in contact with small trucks and vans waiting along the coast for the merchandise. As the ship reached the southern tip of Assateague Island, five miles off Virginia...
Frank Marciano, area director of Buildings and Grounds, said a stoppage in the sewer system located near the dining hall caused the odor. Heavy rain over the weekend contributed to the problem, he added...