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...children' s TV overloaded with commercials and toy tie- ins? Under pressure from critics, the FCC may set some limits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page November 30, 1987 | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...Fifteen minutes later and ten miles away, another driver was shot in the head and killed. Across the state line in St. Louis County, Mo., last week, two people reported being fired upon by other drivers. In separate cases, Illinois police arrested several people who terrorized drivers with toy guns. Said State Police Sergeant Dave Jung: "Our troopers carry real guns, and we're not going to tolerate this anymore." In California numerous police patrols at rush hour choked off last summer's highway fusillade. The Los Angeles County sheriff's department estimates that 43 shooting incidents have occurred since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illinois: Homicide on The Highway | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...earlier production have returned to take part in Bergman's unconventional methods for trying, as Company Member Tom Swift, 25, puts it, "to open the doors onto emotions." The director begins by asking the volunteers to act out scenes from childhood. One patient portrays a child playing with toy soldiers. He says he is blowing up his mother and father with a tank. A second man is told to imagine being discussed by his parents at a cocktail party; when an actress begins playing the role of his mother, he breaks down and decides to leave the cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Massachusetts: Theater Therapy | 11/9/1987 | See Source »

...headed for Main Street Heritage USA--a row of pastel storefronts covered with Christmas bulbs and American flags. In the toy store I pressed the tummy of a $25 doll, and it praised Jesus. The plastic Armor of God, manufactured by Praise Unlimited of Sarasota, Florida, was available at a more moderate price. And I found a real bargain at the drug store sale--"Tammy Faye for President" buttons, for only 99 cents...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Plastic Armor of God | 11/4/1987 | See Source »

...little as possible, but it would have been criminal not to let the crew see them." Recalls Robert Chappaz, who helped secure financing for the mission: "We opened a leather case and saw that it was filled with jewels. We closed it immediately. The wreck was not our private toy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Treasures Reclaimed from the Deep | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

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