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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robert J. Stein Jr Albany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 4, 1978 | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

Hardly any of Zwicky and Baade's colleagues took the proposal very seriously, but some theoretical physicists did follow up the idea. One of these was a young professor named J. Robert Oppenheimer at the University of California at Berkeley, who was studying Einstein's equations as they applied to gravitational collapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Those Baffling Black Holes | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

Probably not, but just to save face with other Universities, most of which are in bad shape financially, Harvard has initiated a somewhat serious effort to cut back. Two years ago, a guy named Stephen S. J. Hall, former vice president for administration, had 115 brainstorms on how to save money. That was the winter Hall decided to turn off all the heat in the Houses over Christmas vacation,, producing extensive flooding due to cracked water pipes, costing a whole...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: As Long As You Asked... | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

Some 150,000 Czechs, including Film Directors Miloš Forman, Ivan Passer and Ján Kádár, have fled to the West. In reprisal for supporting the attempted Dubček liberalization, thousands of professionals and technicians who stayed behind were forced into menial jobs. What remains of the once flourishing Czechoslovak culture is a wasteland of agitprop that French Poet Louis Aragon has called a "Biafra of the spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Ten Years of Twilight | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...says Larry Light, an executive vice president of BBDO, the advertising agency. "They don't buy as a family. We have to sell to them as individuals. Everybody has his or her own bar of soap and bottle of shampoo." Rena Bartos, a senior vice president at J. Walter Thompson, suggests that career couples are a prime target for a host of products, but explains, "We are still in the discovery stage as to how this market should be tapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: America's New Elite | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

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