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...problem is to write cohesive laws that will clearly define Burns' "strategic industries or enterprises." Certainly there should be no investment large enough to enable a foreigner to dic tate policy in U.S. defense industries or in transportation, tele vision networks and other communications industries. The problem for Congress is to meld somehow the interests of OPEC investors and the American desire to maintain unquestioned di rection of sensitive industries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The U.S. Should Soak Up That Shower of Gold | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

...songs, choruses commenting on the action" -but there has never been an opera quite like this. A sort of jaunty and funny morality play about a housewife obsessed with the glories of her floor waxer, it combines the unwieldy stylizations of grand opera with the genteel hysterics of tele vision commercials. The last story, The King of Yvetot, about a man of advancing years who is cuckolded by his young wife, has the level worldliness and sensuality of a late Renoir film like Picnic on the Grass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fantasy and Elegy | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

...depth interviews with the TIME panelists reveal, however, that McGovern is still hurting from a "wishy-washy" image. John Collins, a Republican tele phone-company engineer from Livingston, N.J., chose the word swivel-necked to describe the Democratic challenger. "He finds out that the public doesn't like what he said, so he changes it," says Collins. Asked what would worry her about McGovern as President, Virginia Brock, a Martinsville, Va., schoolteacher and Republican for Nixon replies: "The fact that he is indecisive." The taint of radicalism continues to haunt the Democratic challenger. Ronald Baker, an Arlington, Texas, helicopter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Citizens'Panel: A Few Kind Words for McGovern | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

...bedside. TV is also employed to extend the reach of physicians, allowing them to see and diagnose patients at a distance. Boston's Logan International Airport, one of the world's busiest, has been linked to Massachusetts General Hospital by a system called Tele-Diagnosis. Those in need of care report to the airport examining room, where a nurse takes a preliminary history and establishes contact with the hospital. Once this is done, the doctor can examine and question the patient directly through the two-way hookup, examine specific areas of the patient's body by means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mechanical Medics | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

Angelvin came a cropper on a 1962 visit to the U.S. He had built a minor Paris reputation as a television M.C. and animator of the popular Tele-Paris TV show. After obtaining a month's leave of absence from the French network, Angelvin sailed for New York accompanied by his large Buick sedan. Narcotics agents, already interested in Angelvin's connections with a suspected drug dealer named Scaglia, voyaged with him; on landing, Angelvin was accused of having illegally imported 50 kilos of heroin hidden in the car. Before his trial, Angelvin was held as a material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Three Bars for Dannemora | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

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