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These events are important in the attempt to define what the proper role of religion should be in our society--but so are the quiet compromises that take place in everyday life, like the inner turmoil faced by a Catholic woman when she realizes she is pregnant with a baby she cannot take care...
...little secrets" of the airline industry are out in the open and stirring unprecedented public outrage. In the increasingly overcrowded skies, snafus that threaten safety are on the rise, and everyday service is deteriorating. As more than 100 million U.S. travelers take to the air during this year's peak summer travel season, the Federal Government is recording a surging number of delayed flights, near midair collisions and air-traffic- control errors. The airlines, on the defensive as never before, are scrambling to improve conditions in the hope of easing a growing indignation in Congress and thus heading...
...photographic essay that accompanies the story by TIME Senior Writer Lance Morrow about the ubiquitous effects of the Constitution on U.S. citizens. Most of the pictures were planned in advance with Dorothy Affa, who directed photo research for the issue. Says Bentkowski: "Our aim here was not to document everyday life but to convey a symbolic idea through real objects and real people. It is rare to get a chance to think in advance about the elements of a photograph...
...scrimping on safety, which has spawned fleets of so-called killer trucks with bald tires, worn brakes and bleary-eyed drivers. While most major carriers can afford adequate maintenance programs, struggling trucking companies often put worn-out rigs on the road as a calculated gamble. Most often it is everyday motorists who stand to lose, since the odds are about 30 to 1 that car occupants will be the injured parties in a crash. Truck accidents in the U.S. have increased 26%, from 31,000 in 1980 to about 39,000 in 1985, while the number of miles traveled...
...economist, but you're the first that I've met from outside Cambridge, Mass." Kennedy, however, quickly got over his hesitation about accepting advice from someone unconnected with either Harvard or M.I.T. Walter Heller was so persuasive -- and so adept at translating economic jargon into everyday language -- that the whole nation came to listen, and profit. When he died last week of a heart attack at 71, he had been out of Government office for 23 years, but his high- pitched Midwestern twang still rang loud in every debate over economic policy, commanding the respect even of Republican economists...