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...tickets. On Sept. 28, Miller was called into the Los Angeles field office, then given lie-detector tests, fired and arrested. A search of his bungalow uncovered an embarrassing array of classified documents, including the original file on Svetlana Ogorodnikova. In her rundown Hollywood apartment, investigators found a spy kit, complete with microdots land cipher pads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spy vs. Spy Saga | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

...yourself kits have many reached life and death proportions, as the United States Food and Drug Administration recently authorized a California biotechnology firm to manufacture an over-the-counter cancer detection kit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Waves | 10/10/1984 | See Source »

...Christmas. Orders are already tumbling in from K mart stores across the country. Tucked inside the packages will be catalogs featuring matching T shirts, bandannas, armbands, knee pads and silicon wax to make spinning easier. A Pennsylvania firm, Apex International, has introduced a six-piece break-dancing kit for $20 that includes a folding mat, padded gloves, a glossary of the lingo and a 30-minute cassette of instructions and music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Through to Big Profits | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...bought a Sears tool kit for my first car. One of the screwdrivers broke when I used it for a job it was not meant to do. I sheepishly returned the item and to my amazement was given a new one. Since then, I have spent thousands of dollars at Sears. If my wife reads this, I need a ¾-h.p. router. She knows where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Sears | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

...students build their boats from scratch. Students in a separate one-week class build theirs from kits. For their $300 in tuition plus the price of the kit, they work under the guidance of another Maine boatbuilder, Eric Dow, constructing small, square-bowed dinghies known as Nutshell prams. Those who sign for the one-week course in able-seamanship spend their days aboard the schooner Vernon Langille, a 38-ft. replica of a traditional Tancook Island sailing boat, plying the waters off Maine's rocky coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Class Project Must Float | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

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