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There were many variations on the theme. New Hampshire Attorney John Ahlgren advertised "free legal services for people hit by falling pieces of Skylab" outside his Portsmouth office. But he saw a serious side to the event too. "People feel at the mercy of forces they cannot control," he explained. "Concern is mild, but it's there." An ad hoc Spokane, Wash., group called the Skylab Self-Defense Society hung a 15-ft. bull's-eye on the side of a downtown office building and suggested, "Make Spokane the target for Skylab's landing. If you give the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skylab's Fiery Fall | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...critical" days that represent only 20% of a person's life. In fact, says the Hopkins team, of 205 serious or fatal highway accidents in Maryland in which the driver was legally culpable, only 20% occurred on critical days-just the proportion the scientists expected. Says Andrew Ahlgren, a University of Minnesota researcher who studies body rhythms: "I'm surprised the Hopkins team would even bother. Biorhythm theory is a silly numerological scheme that contradicts everything we know about biological rhythms with their dozens of variables and differences from person to person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Those Biorythms and Blues | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...demand, both because of the amount of heat they deliver and their ease of operation with thermostatic controls. International Troubadour Bill Crofut (he sings in 27 languages) has installed three American-made log burners in his Wilton, Conn., home. With a $425 Riteway Model 37, Steven and Mary Ahlgren have used nothing but wood for the past six years to heat their five-room, multilevel house in Sanbornton, N.H. During last winter's arctic siege they cut all their own wood-four cords. Says Mary: "Our heating bill is always a week of work, whether we cut the wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Back-to-Wood Boom | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...criticism. Ever since the 1954 Supreme Court decision banning segregation in the schools they have urged upholding the law of the land. Press-Scimitar Editor Edward J. Meeman was a champion of Negro rights from the 1930s until he retired in the early '60s. Both current editors Frank Ahlgren of the Commercial Appeal and Charles Schneider of the Press-Scimitar, are members of the city's biracial commission, which has tried to smooth the way for peaceful desegregation in Memphis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Hurt Pride in Memphis | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...G.F.W.C.'s new head, Mrs. Ahlgren promptly took a stand on two controversial issues that came up during last week's convention in Minneapolis: she praised a resolution backing the U.N.; she explained the membership's decision not to back federal aid to education. "We believe," she said, "in states' rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: G.F.W.C. Prexy | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

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