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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Technical excellence has been bought at a social price. The remoteness and boredom frustrate the wives who accompanied their husbands up the hill. "They're overeducated for the kind of life they lead," says Lab Staff Psychologist Frances Menlove. The sense of hush-hush urgency that still dominates the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Alamos: A City Upon a Hill | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Though the foundations did do some charitable work, the Shah invested most of their money in income-producing assets. In a new book, Iran: The Illusion of Power, British Journalist Robert Graham published a 3½-page list of holdings of the Pahlavi Foundation that he was able to track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nobody Influences Me! | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Congressman George Hansen is 6 ft. 6 in. tall and .025 mm thick. He is a piece of video tape, an electronic actor raised to global status through a system gone a bit mad.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: A New Kind of Crisismonger | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Hansen's colleagues in Congress are embarrassed and even a little frightened at the thought of this untutored man careening through the world's tragedies under the protective banner of the House of Representatives. Speaker Thomas O'Neill called Hansen "out of bounds." Nor, in hindsight, did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: A New Kind of Crisismonger | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

But the high priests of television could do something. They could cut down his tape and his air time. Starting with a few lines on the networks on Nov. 22, Hansen grew bigger and bigger through the next days. The TV drama took on a life of its own. One...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: A New Kind of Crisismonger | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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