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Husband Tom, an electronics engineer, decided that there must be a better way. After a few months of basement tinkering, he had the solution: a compact electronic device that anyone in distress could use to summon aid with no more than a press of the fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mini Lifesaver | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...community vulnerable to the marauding Norsemen on the far, cold Isle of lona. Describing a now lost manuscript whose splendor probably approached that of the Book of Kells, Giraldus Cambrensis, a 12th century scholar, declared: "You will make out intricacies so delicate and subtle, so exact and compact, so full of knots and links, with colors so fresh and vivid, that you might say that all this was the work of an angel, and not of a man." The Book of Kells is and no doubt always will be the most sophisticated work of decorative art in the history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gold from the Dark Ages | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...less capital than its competitors with which to develop new models and reduce the size of its cars in order to meet future stringent fuel-economy standards. But it did scrape up the money to bring out a new '78 model, the Concord. It is a luxury compact that, with options, sells for as much as $5,200?roughly comparable to the price of the fast-selling subcompacts, Honda's Accord and Volkswagen's Rabbit. Meyers believes AMC must now focus its sales push on the Concord to the maximum. He told TIME Correspondent Ed Reingold a bit hyperbolically: "Concord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Driver for The Laggard | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...million to 12 million illegal aliens living in the U.S. might seem like the answer to the impossible dream. Soon, perhaps this week, the Administration will deliver its long-awaited package to Congress in finished form. There it is certain to be the focus of fierce debate. Although the compact, 20-page bill was still being refined last week, its major-and most debatable-feature is the amnesty provision. Many fear that it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to cross the border, adding to the burden on al ready overtaxed U.S. services and taking more jobs that might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Alienating the Aliens | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...have a compact with the dead. But if I could get this man, my soul would finally be at peace." So says Simon Wiesenthal, the famed Nazi hunter of Vienna. Since his liberation from Mauthausen death camp in 1945, Wiesenthal, now 68, has dedicated his life to avenging the victims of Hitler's Holocaust by tracking down more than 1,100 of their murderers. Yet the most sadistic Nazi war criminal of all has eluded his grasp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMINALS: Wiesenthal's Last Hunt | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

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