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...their construction expensive. Admits Lawrence Livermore Physicist John Emmett: "No one is saying it will be cheap." Still, given the seriousness of the energy crisis, that is no reason to sidetrack fusion research in favor of programs promising quicker payoffs. "Shortrange solutions last a short time," warns Princeton Physicist Melvin Gottlieb. "Longterm solutions take decades to achieve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TECHNOLOGY: The Great Nuclear Fusion Race | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...first-night curtain went up but also to gather together on its board of directors city hall politicians and Beacon Hill nabobs, to say nothing of Helen Hayes and Mrs. Curt Gowdy. Any group that can accomplish either of these feats ought to be able to survive Strindberg. Melvin Maddocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Survival Test | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...hockey team called the Barons stopped paying its players. Melvin Swig, the president of the Barons, pleaded the club's poverty, which was an honest plea as Mr. Swig stated it. The Barons were not drawing in their home arena near Cleveland. Mr. Swig, however, resides in San Francisco. There his family prospers in real estate and owns the glorious and expensive Fairmont Hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BYPLAY by ROGER KAHN: The Socializing of Slap Shots | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...dutifulness and near total self-abnegation? It has one in the woman now on the throne, and Lacey may be correct when, in a last desperate attempt to dramatize his subject, he looks ahead another 25 years and prophesies, "Elizabeth II is made to be an inspiring old Queen." Melvin Maddocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mother of Four | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

...dispel the poet's legend and resurrect his verse for a wider audience. But that hope, too, may be a drug. In which case, Baudelaire still wins, screaming over the gulf of a century: "Hypocrite lecteur-mon semblable -mon frère!" (Hypocrite reader-my double-my brother!). Melvin Maddocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anatomy of Addiction | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

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