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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grand Hotel, a pink elephant of a building with a view over the port (impressively clean) and the Royal Palace (depressingly severe). The reason was simple. The U.S. Population Institute served a delicious free lunch there: marinated river salmon with sweet mustard, herring in fresh cream, tiny meat balls, thick slices of rare roast beef. To ask an environmentalist to dine, however, is to ask for trouble. Dr. Samuel Epstein, the Cleveland toxicologist who first warned of the harmful effects of the detergent component nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), contended that the beef was full of cancer-causing aflatoxins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Stockholm Notebook | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

Instamatics, priced from about $28 to $128 and weighing from 5.6 oz. to 9 oz. Only one inch thick and capable of being tucked into a shirt pocket, they produce remarkably true color prints that are one-third again as large as those processed from the old-style Instamatics, which were more than three times bulkier. The more expensive models automatically control exposure and tell photographers when to use a flash cube. Next week Kodak will turn out the one-millionth new pocket camera, and company chiefs hope to sell 4,000,000 during the first year. So far, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: Polaroid's Big Gamble on Small Cameras | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

...short, wiry man with a sharp tongue, Vann had a penchant for being in the thick of the fighting. In late April, two helicopters were shot out from under him before he managed to rescue several American advisers from the surrounded headquarters of the 22nd ARVN Division at Tan Canh. In the last weeks of his life, Vann dedicated himself to the defense of Kontum. "There is nothing else for him now," TIME Correspondent John Mulliken wrote recently, "but the saving of Kontum. Like a French colonial, he has no real ties any more with home. He will live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Death of a Perfectionist | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

...elaborate audio-visual equipment. The most distinctive feature of the lecture wing is the "spider leg" supports which hold the roof aloft. The spider legs are nine bent steel trusses that emanate from the center of the semicircle. They will be left uncovered and allowed to rust until a thick cover of reddish oxides is formed...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: Old Ideas Surface in a New Science Center | 6/15/1972 | See Source »

Except for hot dogs and other processed meats, much of which comes from Holiday Inns' Chicago commissary, the motels buy most food locally, but according to strict specifications. T-bone steaks must be either choice or prime, weigh between 12 oz. and 16 oz., and be an inch thick. To keep the meals uniform, company manuals urge local managers to buy certain preferred brands, including Dole pineapple juice, Campbell's soups and General Mills pancake mix (under the company formula, a 5-lb. box should make 100 pancakes). All food portions are carefully measured. The manuals even give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: Rapid Rise of the Host with the Most | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

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