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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WCAS interview was one of the few chances Tsongas had during the day to discuss issues. Fielding a question on his stand on nuclear energy, Tsongas replied that he favors using light water reactors, the type being built at Seabrook, N.H., because he believes the energy alternative--coal-- is worse. Even though the problem of how to dispose of the radioactive waste from such reactors has not been solved, Tsongas said using coal to replace the 30 per cent of total energy now supplied by nuclear power would be disastrous, raising the chance that it could bring about harmful climactic...

Author: By Gideon Gil, | Title: Fighting to Make a Name for Himself | 8/1/1978 | See Source »

When Whitney and Piper return as planned within the next month, they may be subjected to Soviet harassment. Whether Moscow takes further action may depend on what Washington does. By way of not-so-veiled threat, the State Department summoned a Soviet diplomat to "discuss" the status of the San Francisco bureau of the Soviet press agency, Tass. But the Administration had not decided whether to make any retaliatory gestures beyond the moves that President Carter had made after Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky's conviction: he canceled the sale of a Sperry Univac computer to Tass and placed all American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Nothing to Retract | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

Bromhall says he first heard of Rorvik in May 1977, when the author wrote to him saying, "I am working on a new book and wish to discuss in it some of the prospects of mammalian cloning." Bromhall promptly replied with a nine-page abstract of his doctoral thesis on cloning. But when Image was published, Bromhall found to his great surprise that the birth of the cloned boy had supposedly occurred five months before the date of Rorvik's letter. "If Rorvik's story were true," says Bromhall, "then by the time he wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Costly Hoax? | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...Olympics gold medal is strewn with Freudian booby traps. Aunt Velvet, it seems, has still not recovered from a miscarriage she suffered after being thrown by Pie years earlier. John has not only problems at the typewriter but a patho logical fear of marriage. Both these characters discuss their neuroses at great length, often in voice-over narration that accompanies Forbes' extensive travelogue footage of British scenic vistas. Young Sarah, meanwhile, finds herself unable to make friends among her peers. In one gratuitously jarring incident, a cruel class mate presents her with a dismembered Vietnamese finger as a practical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Slow Trot | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...lucky children, for they are watching New York City Ballet Choreographer George Balanchine rehearse his newest principal dancer, Mikhail Baryshnikov. The session is long and hard, and it is going very well. Baryshnikov leaps into the whimsical salutes of Stars and Stripes. He and the choreographer pause to discuss some points, speaking in Russian-a common language for both. Later, Baryshnikov, 30, whips through a fast, intricate sequence from Rubies. He repeats it several times with the same unrelenting charge of energy. Balanchine, 74, watches with a private inward smile. American ballet's hottest, most speculated-on alliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Up and Away in Saratoga | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

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