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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once again the office window has been cheated of its prey. A few hours earlier P.B. Sykes and his strange feet did not exist. Now they do, brought into being by a process as astonishing and mysterious as the sprouting of legs on tadpoles. In Sykes' case, it happened five years ago. It still happens, three times a week, inside the wondrous mind of Russell Wayne Baker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Good Humor Man | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

Justice for the Mennonites The situation of the Mennonite immigrants in west Texas [April 30] is a stark example of the great gap that can exist between the law and justice in any nation. That these devout and industrious people can be deprived of their life savings and deported under the laws of the U.S. constitutes a tremendous travesty of justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 21, 1979 | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...with any tax law, though, complications exist. "There are questions to be raised," says Babbidge. "Will the viewing rights tax not be seen as an insidious first step toward taxation of intangible wealth? Doesn't simple fairness suggest that windows of differing size be assessed differently? How about pedestrians, bus riders and loiterers: are they to be freeloaders while the middle class is once again taxed to subsidize their pleasures?" Such problems aside, there is still some comfort for the assessed: the window tax is taxdeductible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Window on History | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...known incident as the fulcrum of the drama. A survivor, Lewis Keseberg (Jon De Vries), instituted a slander trial against other members of the group, led by James Reed (Berkeley Harris), who had accused him of theft and murder. Though Keseberg won his suit, the trial records do not exist, so the play is an imaginative reconstruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hell in Ice | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

Woodcock and Davis do, however, give ample consideration to objections to the theory: that it is incapable of making useful predictions; that it is so general and qualitative as to reveal nothing we don't already know; that alternative mathematical models already exist; and that its proponents have based their claims of its wide applicability on a few phenomena well-suited to the model. Finally, two of the harshest critics have charged that in substituting pure theory for "the hard work of learning the facts about the world," idealistic mathematicians have used the theory "deduce the world by thought alone...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: The Topology of Everyday Life | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

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