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...special group of 18 top SRI professionals in fields as varied as urban planning, chemistry and energy meet to mull the future in a paneled conference room overlooking a leafy courtyard. The program goes by the acronym of TEAM, which stands for Trend Evaluation and Monitoring. TIME Correspondent Michael Moritz last week became the first reporter ever permitted to attend an SRI brain-storming session. His report: hat in the world are Langmuir Blodgett films?" asked Beth Hiseler, senior office assistant. The question stumped her 17 colleagues for a few moments, but the discussion leaped to life when Chemical Engineer...
...will return to Wainwright, hook up with a bargeload of pipes from Japan and once more swing east. Feeling the menacing bite of the chill September air, the crew will be praying harder than usual that the Arctic not mistake Kardonsky's nerve for defiance. -By Michael Moritz...
With little public notice, a judge in Switzerland, responding to claims lodged by Swiss lawyers representing Iran's central bank, ordered the Shah's villa in the ski resort of St. Moritz to be held under a writ of attachment barring its sale or alteration. The Shah had paid some $2 million for it in 1968. Iranian officials claimed that they have gained similar court sanctions against 13 other assets of the Shah's family in Switzerland, including a $440,000 Geneva apartment owned by Princess Ashraf, the Shah's sister...
...bureau chief, spent 17 days on the Rocky Mountain trail. He liked Boise best, he says, "mostly because of the people, who are contented but not complacent, but also for the clean air, picturesque rivers and forests. Boise residents live there not by chance but by choice." Correspondent Michael Moritz trekked through Tucson, Santa Fe and Salt Lake City before winding up at Arco's Black Thunder mine in Wyoming. He watched in awe as "shovels the size of freighters dumped coal into trucks the size of houses." In Washington, D.C., Correspondent Gary Lee interviewed Congressmen and other powerbrokers...
...Santa Clara Valley. Wages also tend to be lower-an electrical technician in San Jose, Calif., makes an average of $9.77 an hour; his non-union colleague in Colorado Springs makes $7.84-but there are many other compensations. As Albuquerque Mayor David Rusk told TIME Correspondent Michael Moritz: "Refugees from the East and California pull up stakes, take a cut in salary, and trade the loss in money for psychic income...