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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fine beams upon which optical communication depends; the lasers now in use have a projected lifetime of 100,000 hours; researchers would like to increase this to 1 million hours. Scientists are also developing integrated optical circuits, the optical equivalent of the chips that operate digital watches and pocket calculators. Bell engineers are particularly interested in using the circuits to boost or amplify light beams, or to switch them from one fiber to another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light Conversation | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...himself under enormous pressure. One March morning, he gathered up a dozen grafted mice and started upstairs from his laboratory to show his work to Dr. Robert Good, head of S.K.I., and the dominant figure of modern immunology. On the way, Summerlin took a felt-tipped pen from his pocket and darkened the skins of two animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skin Deep | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...matching funds or aid of any kind from the Federal Election Commission in Washington. "I don't believe in accepting federal money," the evangelist explained, saying that the $27,000 he has spent on his campaign over the last year and a half has come out of his own pocket...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: 'The People Have Spoken, the Fools' | 2/27/1976 | See Source »

Born heir to the pocket principality of Lippe-Biesterfeld in 1911, Prince Bernhard Leopold Frederik Everhard Julius Coert Karel Godfried Pieter spent a carefree childhood riding horses, hunting and fishing on a family estate in eastern Germany. After what he calls "a fairly perfunctory" university education in Switzerland and Germany, the prince studied law at the University of Berlin where, like all German students, he was forced to become a member of the Hitler Youth Movement. Severing all connection with the Nazi Party, Bernhard, after his graduation in 1935, took a job in the Paris office of I.G. Farben...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: A Prince in Dutch | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

Another problem for Levine is that his office is not yet ready. Operating almost out of his hip pocket, he bounces happily from one floor to another, borrowing rooms, meeting with the orchestra manager in the basement, rapping with the stage managers near the light-board. He is quickly recognizable. "I can't work in a coat and tie," he says. Adds Singer Marilyn Home: "He must have 50 colors of the same sweater." If he needs to dress formally, Levine can dash home in ten minutes to change at the West Side apartnient he shares with his girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Met's Young Master | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

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