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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Exploration crews have been probing the Tuscaloosa Sand since the early 1960s, but the gas proved elusive. Formed 65 million years ago in northern Louisiana and swept southward by ancient rivers, it lay hidden under a layer of limestone that distorted the echoes of shock waves by which geologists map...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Giant Gas Gusher in Louisiana | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

2001: A Space Odyssey. Even with the passing of some nine years, Stanley Kubrick's cinematic sojourn into and among the stars remains the ultimate word on spedial effects, "Star Wars" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" notwithstanding. The opening and closing sequences of the film provide some of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Astronauts to the Executive Washroom | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

Duffy said his findings, based on observations and computer analysis, indicate that the size of the cyclone is affected by the direction of the magnetic field once it reaches the earth. If the direction of the field is away from the sun the cyclone tends to be larger, he said...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: Senior Links Sun, Cyclones | 11/29/1977 | See Source »

Technical excellence and a shrewd appreciation of its customers' needs helped the International Business Machines Corp. capture most of the world computer market. But critics charge that IBM's policy of controlling all aspects of operations, from manufacturing to maintenance, has unfairly helped to sustain its dominance. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: IBM Withdraws from India | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

IBM had its own reasons to be upset. The company was invited to set up an accounting-machine plant in Bombay in 1951 by Jawaharlal Nehru; he believed India could assert its independence only by building up its own industries, but felt that this could best be accomplished if fledgling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: IBM Withdraws from India | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

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