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Heavy Traffic. Last week two more accidents occurred. Another Liberian tanker, the Daphne, ran aground off Puerto Rico and still another, the Olympic Games, grounded and suffered a hull puncture during a docking maneuver at Marcus Hook, Pa. Moving downstream in a slick 32 miles long, its cargo seeped into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil Is Pouring on Troubled Waters | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

The actors do the kind of work that student actors do, but since their characters don't breathe and move quite like real people, they're on their own. Glyn Vincent as Tyler often seems as confused as his character, but he has moments of real charm and passion, bringing...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Sleep-away Paradise | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

All of these emotional boilings, however, eventually came up against these students' original desires and reasons for wanting to attend these "good schools." Thus the academic problems of these students, if they proved to be serious, were more often than not grounded in psychological confusion. For a time, it looked...

Author: By Walter J. Leonard, | Title: A tower of glass, not ivory | 11/9/1976 | See Source »

Along its 17,860-mile system from Chicago to Honolulu, Continental Airlines has attracted considerable attention-and some charges of sexism -with its "We really move our tail for you" advertising campaign. At 12:01 a.m. Oct. 23, Continental's tail stopped moving. Its 47 Boeing 727s and 16...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Gold-Plated Grounding | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

Loyalist crowds cheered General Howe when he came ashore, and his red-coated infantrymen soon found friends for themselves. A British officer commented cheerfully, "The fair nymphs of this isle are in wonderful tribulation ... A girl cannot step into the bushes to pluck a rose without running the most imminent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: Coming Battle for New York | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

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