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Except for the tedium, however, the crews are not suffering. The barge companies supply all meals, and the fare is fine. The men on the Ann Blessey polish off inch-thick steaks several times a week. Lunch one day last week on the Hawkeye consisted of fried chicken, mashed potatoes, tamale pie, green beans, pineapple upside-down cake and fresh bread. "The cook's probably working harder than anybody," says Dennis Drury, captain of the Cooperative Vanguard...
Holding a 15-inch model of the A6, he defended the fighter as "one of the most capable aircraft in the world...
...moment later, the terrorist detonated 12,000 Ibs. of explosives. The explosives had been wrapped around gas cylinders and placed on a 7-in. floor of concrete covered with an inch-thick slab of solid marble in order to direct the intensity of the blast upward. Even so, the explosive force drove the truck bed 8 ft. down into the earth...
Galas. Or: The Life and Hard Times of Maria Callas. Leave it to off-off-Broadway's Charles Ludlam-playwright, producer, director and, in the title role, every inch a diva-to put the art back into commedia dell'arte...
...jolly. There is little doubt about it. This year has been one of unexpectedly vigorous growth, declining unemployment and low inflation. And TIME's Board of Economists, which met last week in Manhattan, sees business remaining strong next year, while the jobless rate continues to fall and prices inch up only slightly. With an eye toward next year's presidential campaign, Otto Eckstein, chairman of Data Resources, a Lexington, Mass., economic consulting firm, concluded: "The 1984 outlook is very nice, at least for a Republican...