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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...European and Japanese cars have had to be more economical because they haven't had our resources," Paisley replies smoothly. "They probably have a five-or ten-year jump on us in small-car development, but we're catching up." The old challenge and response trick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Michigan: A New Fuels Paradise | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...there," Paisley says, nodding toward the tarmac. "You're seeing aluminum. You're not seeing eight-cylinder engines. You're seeing four and even two. You look at some of these drive trains and you can put them in a bushel basket - that's how small they are. That's an indication of the cars of the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Michigan: A New Fuels Paradise | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...office, the movie is sure to draw howls of pain from personnel officers. Reason: all over the country, companies are finding that despite today's near 6% unemployment rate, they are having to cope with a severe shortage of secretaries. That shortage is, in no small measure, caused by the lingering image of secretaries as decorative gofers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Help Wanted | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...Michigan housewife with a history of kidney trouble and a well-developed martyr's complex. She is searching for her missing husband, a handsome minister who she secretly believes married her as an act of self-punishment. The Rev. Philipson was supposedly killed five years earlier, when his small plane crashed in the Canadian woods. But he has been spotted near Boonton by a hippie who once lived next door to the Philipsons back in Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yankee Gothic | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...hell of a lot more fun than Brook's wimpy, self-effacing Gurdjieff (Dragan Maksimovic). Human saintliness plays better on the big screen when it is accompanied by thunder and lightning. Brook's film is based on the mystic's autobiography. The tale begins in a small town on the Russian-Turkish border where Gurdjieff grew up. From there, the young seeker begins a series of exotic adventures: encounters with various eclectic holy men, a trek through the Gobi Desert and finally a rendezvous with a mysterious sect known as the Sarmoung Brotherhood. These incidents are lavishly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hot Air | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

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