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...they sold the rights to the invention to Robins, which agreed to pay royalties on future sales and $750,000 in cash. Like other intrauterine devices, the Dalkon Shield was designed to be inserted inside the uterus, where it usually prevented pregnancy by making it difficult for a fertilized egg to attach itself to the wall of the womb. Beginning in 1971 Robins sold 4.5 million Dalkon Shields around the world, including 2.8 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robins Runs for Shelter | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...from seeing this movie. For while Pee Wee's days as a featured actor will probably be limited in the future by audiences' patience for seeing his routine over and over again, they are still fresh and funny in this flick. Last one to see it is a rotten egg...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Child's Play | 8/13/1985 | See Source »

...insects have paired, they mate openly on tree trunks and branches, without regard for the fact that they can easily be picked off and eaten by predators or squashed and dusted with poison by humans. But most survive, and the female is able to lay upwards of 500 eggs in slits that she makes in twigs. The lives of the adults are soon over, and they die. But in eight weeks the cicada nymphs hatch and burrow down into the ground to reach the tree roots, on which they will feed and grow slowly for the next 13 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Missouri: the Cicada's Song | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...listened behind doors." Thus when the marriage between a village beauty and a bright yeshiva boy remains stubbornly unconsummated, the odd reason why cannot long escape becoming common knowledge. As before, Singer's tales of rural life reveal the complexities of so-called simple folk. In A Nest Egg for Paradise, a prosperous and pious Jew named Mendel falls victim, once, to the seductive appeals of his sister-in-law. He tries to hide his shame and suffering from the neighbors, but he brings his anguish to a rabbi in another village. "I've forfeited my share in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tales Credible and Inevitable the Image and Other Stories | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...part of their services." One of them is the Giant Food stores of Washington, where international chefs demonstrate their specialties. At a recent F.M.I. exhibition in Chicago, many foods prepared for supermarket delicatessen cases were on display, including Oriental chicken salad and Cha- Zah!, a brand of frozen egg roll. Says William Loutit of the Grand Union supermarkets: "These things are all growing more rapidly than other product lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: International Pot Luck Variety Spices the Country's Rich Culinary Life | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

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