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This is the age of specialization. No need for every baker to be also a butcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1978 | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

Despite the general rule against modern conveniences-no electricity, plumbing, newspapers, cigarettes or soap -the 20th century kept intruding. British education authorities ruled that schoolbooks had to be available for the children, and laws demanded that a butcher come in to stun and slaughter the pigs. TV crews appeared on the scene about twice a week. Percival allowed the volunteers to use Tampax and contraceptives, sent in a doctor four times during emergencies, and took the group for a summer outing at the shore. Said he: "No one's life should suffer or be altered for a television show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Reliving the Iron Age in Britain | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

Economics Department Lecture: Ptodtaka Takeuchi, Professor, Harvard Business School, presents case discussion and lecture on "Butcher Polish." Lecture Room, Margaret Clapp Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WELLESLEY | 3/9/1978 | See Source »

Spinks' early competition came straight from Palookaville. He easily dispatched his first opponent, a Brooklyn butcher named Lightning Bob Smith. Three first-round K.O.s followed, and in fight No. 5, Spinks' competitor withdrew at the last minute. A standin, signed just hours before the scheduled bout, left in a stupor after three rounds. By then, even Spinks' ho-hum matches against Journeyman Scott LeDoux and Italian Alfio Righetti could not dim his TV marketability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Leon Spinks Becomes a Somebody | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

After her husband has kissed her goodbye, Alice A. concentrates on the screen for a readout of merchants' comparative and prices markets. at the local Following eyeball-to-eyeball consultations with the butcher and the baker and the grocer on the tube, she hits a button to commandeer supplies for tonight's dinner party. Pressing a couple of keys on the kitchen terminal, she orders from the memory bank her favorite recipes for oysters Rockefeller, boeuf a la bourguignonne and chocolate soufflé, tells the machine to compute the ingredients for six servings, and directs the ovens to reach the correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Society: Living: Pushbutton Power | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

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