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...hero, Roy Neary (Dreyfuss), is a Middle American variant on the kind of man-in-the-middle played by Gary Grant and James Stewart in films like North by Northwest and Vertigo. A power-company worker who lives with his wife (Teri Garr) and three kids in Muncie, Ind., Roy is engulfed one night by phenomena he cannot understand: searing lights burn him from above, a road sign shakes and twists, the contents of his truck move about in violent defiance of gravity, the needles on his dashboard dials spin past go. Roy is sure that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Aliens Are Coming! | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...into the U.S. market acquiring Mobay Chemical of Pittsburgh and Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif., but it has never regained a significant position in U.S. consumer drugs. Last week it moved to do so, by offering "at least" $40 a share for a controlling interest in Miles Laboratories, Elkhart Ind.-based maker of Alka-Seltzer and One-a-Day vitamins. If Bayer bought all 5.4 million Miles shares, the purchase would swallow $216 million of the $500 million that Bayer has pledged to invest in the U.S. during the next five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bayer as Buyer | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

Hartford City, Ind., an accused murderer testified last month that he and a friend were involved in killing four brothers in a trailer camp shortly after viewing a television dramatization of the Manson murders. While some psychologists argue that for the vast majority of viewers TV violence provides a vicarious release of aggression, most leading researchers have found that violence on television tends to reduce a child's inhibitions against behaving aggressively. Studies indicate TV teaches the young that violence often succeeds and that problems can be solved by aggressive behavior. Moreover, kids are likely to copy what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Did TV Make Him Do It? | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...Livengood Anderson, Ind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1977 | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...Ernst Vincennes, Ind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 5, 1977 | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

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