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...Lappe and Collins report, doctors frequently write "Coca-Cola baby" on the progress reports of infants hospitalized for malnutrition; Zambian mothers, assuming Coke must be good for children because it is so expensive, feed it to their babies instead of milk. The picture the authors paint of the human toll of profit-maximizing techniques is not a pretty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sky Is Not Falling | 9/14/1977 | See Source »

...Rome, received orders from Berlin to execute ten times as many hostages in reprisal. Within 36 hours, German troops had rounded up several truckloads of Italian civilians. The Italians were taken to the ancient Ardeatine Caves three miles south of Rome and there were shot dead. The precise toll was 335-five more than Kappler's orders called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Missing Cancer Patient | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

...Harrier AV-8A jump jets, the British-built aircraft capable of leaping straight up from a carrier deck and then accelerating to more than 500 m.p.h., have crashed since the Marines first bought them seven years ago. Death toll: nine pilots. Six of the planes have gone down this year, the latest on July 26 in Pamlico Sound off eastern North Carolina, killing its pilot. Just two weeks before that, another pilot was killed when his plane dove into the Atlantic off the North Carolina coast after having performed its feat of hummingbird derring-do from the carrier Saratoga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRCRAFT: The Marines' Bad Luck Plane | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

...full death toll is not yet known. It will not be until several investigations -by the hospital and state and local health authorities-are concluded and their findings made public. But last week relatives and friends of those who died in the hospital during the period before the mix-up was discovered were both stunned and resentful. Housewife Evelyn Erskine, whose 61-year-old mother died suddenly last January after treatment of a respiratory condition, filed the first of many expected lawsuits that could eventually reach millions of dollars. "They had Mother on oxygen, and they were having problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Breath of Death | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

...GUARDIA. 14.3 million passengers last year. Averages 857 landings and takeoffs daily. Two perpendicular runways, 15 airlines. Delays of 30 min. or more: 5,803. Accessibility: good. Allow 20 to 35 min. for ten-mile ride downtown by car or cab ($8, plus 750 toll). Buses downtown ($3) every 20 min., from 6:50 a.m. to 1:50 a.m. Irregular limousine service to the suburbs. Helicopters to Kennedy ($23.15) and Newark ($29.63); flights cost less when making certain connections. Parking: sufficient. New, covered, metered parking area convenient for meeting incoming flights. Far-out lots served by shuttle bus. Flow Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: TIME'S Guide to Airports: Jet Lag on the Ground | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

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