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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard to start. But this problem is not insoluble. Scott Skylar, Washington, D.C., director of the National Center for Appropriate Technology, a federally funded energy research group, beat the 45° barrier in his alcohol-powered 1964 Rambler by running a tube from a discarded automobile's window washer to the mouth of the carburetor, and filling the washer tank with gas. To start on cold days, he squirts a booster shot of gas into the carburetor by pushing the windshield-washer button...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Home-Brew Fuel | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...week wore on, Carter acted as if a great weight had been lifted off him. Looking out of a White House window on Thursday evening, he spotted some people pressed up against the iron fence along Pennsylvania Avenue. In his shirtsleeves the President went out to see them. As the crowd broke into a verse of one of his favorite hymns, Amazing Grace, Carter climbed the fence to greet them. Friday afternoon, at a two-minute press conference, an unsmiling Carter defended his Cabinet changes as being "all constructive" and said that there would be no further firings. He added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carter's Great Purge | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...lean hard on his old friend Bill to have the Fed raise interest rates. Concluding that Blumenthal was wrong, Miller balked; eventually Carter had to tell Blumenthal to ease up the pressure. Later Miller would sit calmly in his inordinately neat Fed office on Constitution Avenue, motion out the window toward the White House and say, "All's quiet on the western front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Changing the Economic Team | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...real, and prevents the movie from deteriorating into a mere string of jokes. One of the high points is a romance between Dave and a sorority girl (Robyn Douglass) that begins while he is wearing the Italian accent he cannot abandon. His courtship includes a Neapolitan serenade beneath her window and a touching time when he must finally confess his impersonation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cutups | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...Elephant Man. Winner of both the New York Drama Critics Circle and Tony awards, this drama about a man (Philip Anglim) grotesque in shape but al most saintly in spirit is the kind of the atrical experience that opens a window on the high cost, strange mystery and in effable blessing of human life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Summer Fair | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

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