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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crash, the world's fourth most serious aviation tragedy,* was the third DC-10 disaster this year. It thus raised initial apprehensions about another possible mechanical failure like the faulty engine mounting that caused the U.S.'s worst single air disaster in Chicago last May. However, there was no evidence that the aircraft was defective. Though the exact cause of the crash remained undetermined at week's end, suspicions centered on possible pilot error. Captain Jim Collins, 45, was a flyer of 21 years' experience with a reputation for being "the epitome of a non-risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Tour to a Snowy Death | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...industry has always been secretive and hysterical, and the advent of memory chips and voice synthesizers has not calmed things down. The designers of Simon, Marvin Glass & Associates of Chicago, refuse categorically to deal with the press. At the design department of Mattel, in California, "you knock on the door and they look at you through a little hole," according to one industry executive who has visited there. Inside, "these guys are all sitting around, and they've got little computers, and'they're writing down figures and leafing through little books, and they scratch their heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Beeping, Thinking Toys | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...life itself, there can be only one end to the struggle. At last the heroic player dies, overwhelmed. He is limp, drained, defeated, and his only satisfaction is the knowledge that he has offed a lot of aliens. Current hard-to-believe heroic high scores: by a Chicago player, 187,520, and a 257,000 claimed by a Pennsylvania college student. Midway Mfg. Co. of Illinois has sold 40,000 of the machines in a year, and, yes, you can buy one for your rec room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Beeping, Thinking Toys | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...penis. In 29 other cases, the men refused to allow interviews with their partners. Kramarsky-Binkhorst also discovered that some men had not told their wives about the surgery and were now sexually active elsewhere. Comments Psychiatrist Domeena Renshaw of Loyola's Sexual Dysfunction Training Clinic outside Chicago: "If there were marital problems that were not resolved before the surgery, then afterward they will still be there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Aiding Nature | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...reasonable recommendation, suggests Dr. Arthur Herbst, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Chicago in an editorial accompanying the report, is for women with a history of miscarriage-or whose cervix has begun to dilate-to avoid intercourse and orgasm inthelast trimester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pregnant Sex | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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