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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Francisco Bay, on rivers and lakes across the country, wind-surfers are multiplying like lily pads. Industry officials figure there are some 25,000 of them out there, or twice as many as last year. Hardy souls in Boston don wet suits and climb aboard their boards as soon as the ice breaks on the Charles River, and during the Fourth of July festivities, half a dozen wind-surfers participated in a race through New York harbor. Wind-surfing championships will be held this fall in Clearwater, Fla., with competition in such categories as slalom-type racing, freestyle, long-distance...

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

...that are covered by plastic bubbles. "All the shrimp have been just about fished out of the oceans," says Austin. That is largely because in the open seas, 98% of all shrimp eggs are lost; but in Coke's protected patches, 50% grow to maturity. Austin expects fairly soon to be selling a lot of shrimp from this "controlled environment farm." There is a fair chance that when the supply stretches, the price will shrink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: The Strength of Samson | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

That shortage may soon be eased. In the most dramatic display yet of the controversial genetic engineering technique known as recombinant DNA, independent teams at the University of California in San Francisco and at a small commercial research firm, Genentech Inc., in nearby Palo Alto, used human pituitary tissue to construct the gene, or DNA segment, responsible for the production of somatotropin. They then implanted it in the genetic machinery of a laboratory strain of the common intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli. The gene splicing worked: the re-engineered bugs began to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Help from a Bug | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...International). Egorov, 25, is the Russian whose biggest break turned out to be losing out in the 1977 Van Cliburn Piano Competition in Fort Worth. His many disappointed partisans in the audience formed a committee to raise the equivalent of the $10,000 grand prize for him, and he soon had all the publicity and bookings a young art ist needs. As this release shows, he has all the more fundamental qualities a young artist needs too: exuberant virtuosity, a formidable command of pianistic sonorities and lots of sensitive, poetic feeling. -Christopher Porterfield

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sounds in a Summer Groove | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...cast inquired politely about the plot, Director Michael Curtiz shouted, "Actors! Actors! They want to know everything." Ingrid Bergman complained that she did not know how to act toward the two men because she didn't know her fate. Screenwriter Julius Epstein told her simply, "As soon as we know, we'll let you know." Finally, the director decided to shoot both endings. The first exit-Bergman flying off with Henreid-left Bogart looking so good and noble and selfless that the second ending was never filmed. Though Bogart lost the girl, he did win Claude Rains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Playing the End Game | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

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