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After a troublesome nine-month gestation, King Kong is alive and well and going through toilet training in Hollywood. The 40-ft. star of Dino De Laurentiis' $22 million ape epic made his public debut at MGM's back lot and, considering that his innards are almost as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The King Leaks | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

GROWTH REGULATION. Growth regulators, those hormone-like substances that control the growth patterns of plants and tell them when to ripen, drop their fruit or prepare for the onset of winter, also have potential for increasing production. Thompson seedless grapes are routinely sprayed with a substance called gibberellic acid, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Searching for Superplants | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

Far Tortuga therefore sets sail with a babel of unattributed dialogue swimming in blinding expanses of white space. Pages go by bearing single words: "Polaris," "horizon." Taken singly, these pages seem too easy, too close to the work of lazy poets who write a word like "loneliness" in the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sea Changes | 5/26/1975 | See Source »

The case dates back to 1973 when the Navy announced that it had chosen an 8,500-acre tract at Bangor near the northwestern corner of the state of Washington as the home base for its Trident submarines. To support these su-persubs*-which are designed to replace the Polaris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Trouble over Trident | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

No branch of the negotiator's art is more demanding, delicate or deadly than nuclear diplomacy, and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is one of the few men in the world who can be said to have mastered it in both theory and felt-table practice. Recently, while escorting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Real Thing | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

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