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Through the mud of Fox Island in Puget Sound clumps a stubby and sturdy woman wearing a vibrant green baseball cap, a gold and green sweatsuit, and a T shirt emblazoned SAVE OUR FISHING FLEET. Beaming happily, she feeds her Beltsville White turkeys (one of which she will later carve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dixy Rocks the Northwest | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

One member, Magician James ("The Amazing") Randi, has publicly duplicated Uri Geller's feats, such as key and spoon bending, without invoking paranormal forces. He has challenged the Israeli illusionist to submit to controlled tests of his powers, but Geller has not responded.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Attacking the New Nonsense | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

Founded in 1891, Carborundum, which has 85 plants in 24 countries, produces more than 2,000 industrial products ranging from air filters to diesel engine camshafts. It has, along with the Norton Co., a leading position in abrasives-grinding materials essential for all elements of the metal-bending business. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kennecott and the White Knights | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

What was a nice, "serious" musician doing in a piece like this? It was an all-Bernstein program, and the composer had dedicated the overture to Rostropovich by way of acknowledging his arrival in Washington. The music was called Slava!, which is not only the Russian word for glory but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Magnificent Maestro | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

Nobody really minds that Tolstoy put words in Napoleon's mouth long after the event; it is the use of this technique for contemporaries, or the recent dead, that raises problems. Now that Herman Wouk is converting his bestseller The Winds of War into a television series, he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Playing with the Facts | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

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