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...join his relatives in the U.S. so much, and for so long, that he petitioned Moscow 18 times for permission to emigrate. Finally last December approval came, and Polovchak, 42, brought his wife Anna and their three children to Chicago. He worked as a factory janitor, she as a cleaner in a hospital. But neither formed close ties with the Windy City's large community of Ukrainians, many of whom were World War II refugees, and Michael soon began to complain: Chicago was too noisy, the air polluted, the weather bad, the food contaminated by chemicals. Eventually he began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Here Is Better | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...Busby Berkeley danceathon; and Paul Sand performs comic wonders with the role of a manic music executive. But there is no style here. Producer Allan Carr's guiding principle seems to be: shoot everything that moves, throw it on the cutting-room floor, give the editor a vacuum cleaner and hope that it will all work out. It doesn't: Can't Stop the Music is overkill, all noise and motion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Great Rock-'n'-Roll Caravan | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

...zinc-chloride "Electric Engine" developed by Gulf & Western Industries. The G & W power system, unveiled with much fanfare, is the latest step toward the return of the volts wagon. With gasoline heading toward $1.50 per gal., with the nation bent on reducing imports of OPEC oil, and with cleaner air high on Washington's list of priorities, the electric vehicle, or EV for short, is the focus of increasing scientific and marketing attention. The EVs reincarnation could profoundly affect how Americans get around in the next century. David N. ("Jim") Judelson, G & W's president, is positively electrified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Volts Wagon Does It, Again | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

...problems it creates for local residents beyond the most perfunctory public statements. In the Medical Area, it has built a $200 million power plant with little regard for the environmental havoc it might cause in nearby residential areas, and fought desperately against efforts to make the plant's operation cleaner. Harvard acts as though it exists in a vacuum, and pays no attention to the repercussions of its actions in Cambridge. Today the city is powerless to do much beyond draping City Hall in purple bunting to mourn its problems; but if the day should come when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shunning Responsibility | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

...vacuum cleaner down there--the best," says hurler Rob Alevizos, who adds to the chorus of compliments by chiming in "Rick is a super...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Golden Glove Attitude at the Hot Corner | 4/15/1980 | See Source »

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