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...while, hunt and fish without tanglin' lines with fifteen other people down the line. But the oil is bound to bring in people, and it's bound to lose that old Alaska. A lot of places you don't even see it any more. You see locks on cabin doors. Heck, the only cabin I got with a lock on it is the post office, and it has to be locked. I don't say it's good or it's bad. People got to go somewhere, and I guess there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Vanishing World of Trapper Joe Delia | 7/27/1970 | See Source »

...their car's rear window, his wife had stuck a flag decal with a peace sign where the stars should have been. Says Stowe: "I'm willing to live with people who think that the flag is sacred. But I'd appreciate it if they wouldn't lock me in jail if I don't feel the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Who Owns the Stars and Stripes? | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

...suburb of Mo-kattam are not permitted to bring guests home because some callers might be spies who would notice the nearby missile site's 65-ft. "Squat Eye" tower, so nicknamed by NATO. Similarly, the Mokattam Casino, from which the view was too clear, has been moved lock, stock and roulette table to the Nile Hilton Hotel, from which no missiles can be visible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Moscow-on-the-Nile | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

...solar disk across the sky, capture its light and bounce it in parallel beams into the big mirror. The system involves some ingenious engineering. Each heliostat is controlled by its own photoelectric cells. Whenever one of the hehostats (each of which is made 180 individual mirrors) loses its lock on the sun, these tiny electric eyes inform a minicomputer, which in turn controls a pair of hydraulic pumps that can rotate and tilt the heliostat into th proper position. Only one manual ad justment is needed to operate the heliostats. It is made at the end of the day, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sun Power in the Pyrenees | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

...uncommon. She is unable to choose happiness over despair because her will has been paralyzed. In Wheelis' view, the cause is not only Craig's outrages but the subtly pervasive spirit of the age. Behaviorists, technophiles and their parrots in the social sciences have overemphasized the lock step of instinct at the expense of free will. For many people, the result is a form of fatalism that destroys belief in the possibility of change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sleeping Beauty | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

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