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...economy was going and getting a constant stream of forecasts of 'On the one hand this and on the other hand that,' Harry Truman allegedly said, 'Hell, what I need is a one-armed economist.' " Still, Reporter-Researchers Hilary Ostlere, Allan Hill and Sarah Button were struck by the almost universal comment of one economist to another, "I agree with you absolutely-but ..." Nevertheless, concluded Associate Editor James Grant, who wrote this week's story, "I'm glad TIME has two-fisted advisers. The election year of 1976 looks like a good time...
...plant, along with Schenectady, and also a Chrysler factory, and thousands of cluttered plots of working homes. Farm country from there to Rochester, and with luck it's dark by then, and you don't have to see the farm on the right where the huge painted yellow smile button pollutes the side of a silo for people to point to and pass ten seconds interacting about whooshing east and west all year every single solitary...
...committed procrastinator. "I run to the stores on Christmas Eve," she says. "It's my protest against all the hoopla that seems to begin before I can get Thanksgiving out of the way." Reporter-Researcher Sue Raffety is also an incorrigible last-minute shopper, but her colleague Sarah Button, another member of our cover reporting team, shops for Christmas all year long and never gets caught short at the last minute. Then there is Staff Writer John S. DeMott: he not only turned his cover story in more or less on time but also claims that he always...
Powerful Pinch. To attach the arm, Dr. Vert Mooney and his colleagues inserted three "buttons" or fasteners through the skin in the stump. (The buttons can permanently protrude through the skin without promoting infection because they are coated with pyrolytic carbon,* which Mooney says forms an antibacterial seal.) The doctors connected two of the buttons to the arm's median and ulnar nerves with stainless-steel coils, and wired the third button to another carbon plug that serves as a ground. They then connected all buttons to wires in the prosthesis itself, linking them to sensors in the hand...
Handsome, medium height, slender, Brooks Brothers glen plaid suit, blue shirt with a button-down collar, wing-tip shoes, a slight...