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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that idea is being challenged by, among others, Physicists Steven Weinberg and Sheldon Glashow of Harvard and Pakistani Abdus Salam, winners of this year's Nobel Prize in physics for showing an underlying unity of two of nature's four basic forces: electromagnetism and the so-called weak force, which governs some forms of radioactive decay within the atomic nucleus. In carrying their work further to relate these two forces to a third -the strong force (which binds the atomic nucleus together)-they and other researchers determined that such unity requires a net loss of baryons when certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diamonds May Not Be Forever | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...Directed by Steven Spielberg; Written by Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bombs Bursting in Air | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...biggest problem with Steven Spielberg's 1941 is its budget: this film is the most expensive Hollywood farce ever made. Certainly money has its uses in movies, but in a comedy? A key element of humor is surprise; jokes are funniest when they sneak up on the audience out of nowhere. In big-budget film making, the opportunities for comic am bush quickly disappear. Every joke announces itself in deafening stereo sound. Every pratfall is as momentous as Cecil B. DeMille's parting of the, Red Sea. Punch lines cannot be thrown away, but are instead hurled like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bombs Bursting in Air | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

MARRIED. Amanda Burden, 36, fashion-plate daughter of the late society queen Barbara ("Babe") Paley; and Steven Ross, 52, acquisition-minded chairman of Warner Communications; both for the second time; in East Hampton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 10, 1979 | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Larry Countryman and Steven Schramm did the most damage, each recording two individual firsts. Countryman took the 1000 (9:37) and 500 (4:37.1) freestyles, while Schramm dominated both the low-and high-board diving...

Author: By John S. Bruce, | Title: Aquamen Conquer West Point | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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