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...next visitors arrived in the pre-dawn light with all the thunder of rapid-fire U.S. Cobra and AC-130 helicopter gunships, Air Force C-5A and C-130 troop transports, and the supersonic boom of jet fighters. Two airports, one operational and the other being built, were much on their minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day in Grenada | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

Houston was the home town of the Urban Cowboy, a ghost town in that sense now. The country-and-western boom has gone the way of the Oilers, who in the words of Fullback Earl Campbell (originally of Songwriter Merle Haggard) have gone the way of "a snowball rolling downhill headed for hell." Halfway through the season last week, the Oilers had lost them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bootlegs and Saddles | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...truly a masterpieces and a cultural boom to the Southwest." Speller added. "If they take care of it, the organ will be around for 400 or 500 years...

Author: By Peter R. Eccles, | Title: First Class Pipes | 10/29/1983 | See Source »

...Student dally agreed earlier this month to pay $5000 in Phillip S. Andell, who claimed that he and his firm had boom libeled by in illustration for the article, Crimson President Jacob M. Schlesinger '34 said this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Settles Libel Suit | 10/25/1983 | See Source »

...categories: geography, history, art and literature, science and nature, entertainment, sports and leisure. In addition to the original game, there is now a Silver Screen edition of movie lore. Two versions now available in Canada, a Sports edition and one full of the esoterica beloved by the baby-boom generation, will soon be released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Let's Get Trivial | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

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