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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The best waves, of course, are found in Hawaii. But experts contend that Florida in the wintertime approaches Hawaii in excellence and argue that San Francisco Bay is "the Aspen" of wind-surfing because of its challenging winds and strong waves. Other highly touted places include the mountain lakes of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Try to Catch the Wind | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

Well along the development cycle also is the submarine-launched cruise missile (SLCM). A General Dynamics Tomahawk had its sixth successful underwater firing last week off California. Planned mainly as an antiship weapon, the SLCM can carry a conventional or nuclear warhead about 300 nautical miles. By 1982, the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Deadly Flying Cigars | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

Freud always considered himself a "bold oppositionist," at his best warding off attackers. Around this notion, says Sulloway, grew the myth that Freud was beset on all sides for his shocking new ideas. In truth, much of the medical Establishment was on the same track as Freud, and his books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Did Freud Build His Own Legend? | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

In Sulloway's view, the Freudians painted themselves into a corner very early, cutting themselves off from the world of science, blotting out the context of Freud's discoveries, and withdrawing into a sectlike movement obsessed with orthodoxy. Much of this flowed from Freud's view of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Did Freud Build His Own Legend? | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

The President got off to a promising start. In a blizzard of speeches and briefings early last week, he described plans to spend a breathtaking $141 billion over the next decade ("one of the biggest figures you ever heard ... the unparalleled peacetime commitment"). The aim is to cut U.S. oil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Costly, Complex | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

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