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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, that was five years ago. Rather than becoming the highly successful purveyor of tireless, reliable welders, assemblers and heavy lifters for the auto industry, aerospace and other industrial concerns, robotics today is an industrial accident victim, crippled by a two-year slump. Sales of U.S. robots are expected to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Limping Along In Robot Land | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

Suddenly a burst of fire hit the water just 16 ft. from the Neckar. Then a corvette struck the German craft with eight 30-mm shells, setting her stern gun turret afire and punching a hole in her hull beneath the waterline. Three crewmen were injured. After the fire was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Seas They Couldn't Hit a . . . Oops! | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

Alnilam's protagonist is Frank Cahill, an Atlanta amusement-park and swimming-pool owner who has recently been blinded by diabetes. He learns that his son Joel is missing and presumed dead after a military aircraft training accident in North Carolina. Cahill and his touchy German shepherd Zack travel to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Into The Wild, Mystical Yonder ALNILAM | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

In the 14 months since the world's worst civilian nuclear accident, Moscow has been slowly fixing blame for the disaster, which killed 31 people, hospitalized hundreds and caused severe environmental damage. Until last week no one had been charged with a crime. The trial starts next month in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: The Men Who Caused a Cloud | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

The scene in Twilight Zone: The Movie was meant to be a powerful climax: Actor Vic Morrow slogging across a river with a child under each arm as bombs exploded and a helicopter hovered overhead. Instead, the chopper crashed, killing Morrow and the two children and resulting in the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Twilight Zone: The Verdict | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

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