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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They are the most prestigious prizes in the world. Besides a hefty stipend (now $190,000) and a gold medal, they bring instant fame, flooding winners with speaking invitations, job offers, book contracts and honorary degrees. So heady is the honor that Physicist Tsung Dao Lee, who became a Nobel laureate at the precocious age of 31, wondered what he could do for the rest of his life. Indeed, as the time of the announcements approaches each fall, many contenders are so afflicted with Nobel fever they literally jump whenever their telephones ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nobel Prizes: That Winning American Style | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...well-to-do Robert Acton - what should be the film's central action - one's feelings are ambiguous. James himself never quite pinned down what instinct preserved Acton and his fortune from her designs. The movie is even less clear on that point, perhaps because Lee Remick, as Eugenia, does not touch on those hints of boldness and desperation that are implicit in the text. Robin Ellis might have brought to Acton more of the shrewdness and tart ness of his Poldark. As presented, the pair are so agreeable and handsome that one sees no reason for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Correct Form | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

Radioactive waste and the need for a place to dump it. Thus when Washington Governor Dixy Lee Ray early this month shut down her state's Hanford dump, one of the three- such sites available to U.S. producers of low-level radioactive wastes, there was immediate concern in the nuclear medicine departments of hospitals and research centers across the U.S. Some nuclear power plants can use on-site storage areas for radioactive wastes. But hospitals and universities with limited storage capacity rely on regular pickups by private carters. For them, a wide array of vital tests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dump Slump | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...labyrinth of Government regulation has not only shifted research from new products to the "defensive research" necessary to comply with burgeoning environmental and safety rules, but has also increased the cost of bringing out new developments. Says Chrysler Chairman Lee lacocca: "I never invent anything any more. Everything I do is to meet a law." In the early '60s it cost $1 million and took up to five years to bring a drug through the Federal Drug Administration's regulatory maze. It now costs $18 million and can take ten years. As a result, the number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Sad State of Innovation | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...mournful monologues are so indiscriminately mixed that the audience often does not know how to respond. At one point the movie comes to a halt so that we can go on a supposedly comic helicopter ride. There are also pointless interludes in which the hero visits his humorless grandfather (Lee Strasberg) at an old-age home; these scenes swing wildly between sentimental clichés and tasteless jokes about senility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Kangaroo Court | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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