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...which a male companion sexually assaulted her with a knife. Under hypnosis she recalled too much, including several incidents that could not have happened. In throwing out a rape conviction in 1983, New York's highest court declared that hypnosis created "a mixture of accurate recall, fantasy or pure fabrication in unknown quantities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Breaking the Spell of Hypnosis | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

Both companies have responded, to the satisfaction of environmentalists. Homestake uses three huge pressure cookers, called autoclaves, near one of its projects. In them, pure oxygen is pumped through a slurry of gold ore and water to eliminate pollution. By the end of the century, American gold output could reach 200 tons a year, thus making the U.S. the third largest producer behind South Africa (680 tons currently) and the Soviet Union (283 tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Cleaned-Up Gold Rush | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

What the New Right fears is that the Eastern Establishment will steal back the party's soul. Viguerie and his allies persistently threaten to form a new, pure conservative party. (So far it is nameless. Viguerie whimsically suggests calling it the No Place to Go Party, since White House operatives are always saying the New Right has nowhere to go but the G.O.P...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Struggling for a Party's Soul | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...three-fight contracts. "I'm going to wear that gold medal with pride, and then I'm going to put it around my mother's neck," he said. "She deserves it more than me." In a tournament in which it seemed that the amateur ideal of pure sport had taken more than a few shots to the head, this was refreshing indeed. -By Michael Walsh. Reported by BJ. Phillips/Los Angeles

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: GOLD TODAY, GREEN TOMORROW | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...treatments. Among them were obesity powders "to get rid of superfluous fat," a hair restorer and remedies for rheumatism, asthma, heart disease and an "opium and morphine habit." The bulk of the 1897 edition is devoted to the essentials of late-19th century life, at prices that today are pure nostalgia. Shoppers could find a 200-lb. barrel of corned beef for $9, a 35-lb. wooden pail of gumdrops at $1.65 and a dozen 5-lb. pails of strawberry jelly for $6. Clothing included men's wool worsted suits for $6.50 and ladies' "walking and bicycle suits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Wish Book | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

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