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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many of the tourists who are flocking daily to Pennsylvania's crippled Three Mile Island nuclear power station, the 15-minute documentary may have the ring of authority. Prepared by Metropolitan Edison Co., the plant's operator, and being shown daily at the Observation Center across the river from Three Mile Island's cooling towers, the script has a glib explanation for last March's near disaster. It resulted, says the Met Ed film, from "a complex combination of equipment failures, ambiguous instruments and operator failures . . ." The production also insists that the amount of radiation released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Three Mile Island Verdict | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

DIED. Henry Robbins, 51, distinguished editor in chief of E.P. Dutton's trade book division whose imprint, "A Henry Robbins Book," appears on the current bestseller by John Irving, The World According to Garp; of a heart attack; in a New York City subway station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 13, 1979 | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...which lay unsettled until Sir George Gowers and his crew were shipwrecked on its coast in 1609. Several accounts of the expedition and wreck circulated in England the next year, and these provided Shakespeare with much of his material. The dramatist, in order to make the island a way station between Africa and Naples, simply transferred his Bermuda from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Serving the Eye Better than the Ear | 8/7/1979 | See Source »

...Managua where exiled Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle had commanded a bloody last stand fluttered the red-and-black banner of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.). Even the sounds were different Gone was the stream of anti-Communist propaganda that had once poured from Somoza's radio station. In its place came round-the-clock broadcasts of revolutionary songs and tributes to General Cesar Augusto Sandino, the legendary nationalist guerrilla slain by Somoza's father in 1934. Proclaimed an announcer: "The sons of Sandino are going to build the country that the general dreamed about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Undoing the Dynasty | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...places in Boston where a modest fee can buy an evening of bold, seldom offered film experience. The White Knuckles Cinema series, presented this summer by the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston, is screened in an improvised movie theater three elevator flights atop a former Boston fire station, and it seats only about 150 people. But for $2.50, the ICA offers to the public films which are generally excellent but virtually never seen anywhere else...

Author: By --larry Shapiro, | Title: Raw Knuckles on Film | 8/3/1979 | See Source »

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