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...They brought out a truck at dawn and threw something into it. I understand they are claiming it was a cow. But it was light enough so I could see that whatever it was had only two legs." All told, 106 people have been officially listed as killed while trying to escape across the fence since it was armed 19 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: Life Along the Death Strip | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...cow's path to saving fuel motorists in the Northwest seem to have discovered a new way to milk a few more miles out of their Cougars, Firebirds and pickups: cow magnets, believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Magnetic Miles | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

After the local newspaper published a story about Goiri in July, the cow-magnet craze struck Oregon, Idaho and Washington like gold fever. In ten days, Stocklin Supply near Portland, one of the largest animal health stores in the Northwest, sold 35,000 of the devices. It usually sells 15,000 to 20,000 a year. Goiri now has a patented kit called Magnetic Fuel Savers, which contains two plastic-coated magnets, clamps for fastening them to the fuel line, and directions for the rumble-fingered. Price: $16 to $19.90. Goiri has been contacted by some automotive-parts distributors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Magnetic Miles | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...reality from colonial days to the present, from Town Builder William Penn's hope for "a green country town, which will never be burnt, and always be wholesome" to the prepackaged sterility of some of today's contrived "new towns." Factory towns, farm towns, railroad towns, cow towns, mining towns, all march through his book. "New England towns with white churches and elm-arched streets ... fugitive transient towns with their tacked-on names and mayfly lives." The aspirations and disappointments of little American towns have come and gone in rich diversity, too, but every town, as Lingeman says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Small Town, U.S.A.: Growing and Groaning | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

...husband is a Muscovite, born and bred. Your magazine brought me so much closer to the life he lived until 1976, when he was able to emigrate. His future is American now, a fact for which he is ever thankful. However, the pictures of Mos cow, streets on which he walked, restaurants he visited, Red Square, took him back to a life that he has kept shrouded in the shadows of years gone. For the first time I felt I really began to understand what it means to him and his fellow ref ugees to be Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 14, 1980 | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

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