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...Doctor tries to carry out his fiendish experiment, a fight breaks out and the laboratory catches on fire. Allen and Helen manage to escape, but so does the result of one of the doctor's experiments--a giant breast that flops through the countryside like a Japanese science fiction monster. But Allen tells Helen not to worry, because "he knows how to handle tits" and they rush off to the Sheriff's office. Eventually a plan is devised where Allen lures the stalking breast into a trap-a gigantic bra. But even after the breast is captured, the Sheriff remains...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee iii, | Title: Giving Dr. Reuben the Finger | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

...discovery has not been confirmed by other specialists, but he thinks that he can provide even more persuasive evidence. By probing further in the Colorado quarry-"a paleontologist's paradise," he says-Jensen hopes eventually to recover enough bones to reconstruct the entire skeleton of the prehistoric monster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Two Superlatives | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

...Lakota, you turn right off Route 2 and head north on Route 1 toward Nekoma, once a town of "84 old people" and now the headquarters of the only U.S. ABM site. Suddenly it looms above the featureless landscape like some huge, misplaced Mayan temple, a 21st century monster squatting on the 19th century rural countryside of northeast North Dakota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: The ABM Temple at Grand Forks | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...monster it is. The missile-site radar's concrete housing is 231 ft. square at the base and 125 ft. deep; 50 of those feet, including the living level, are underground. Next to the MSR is its own power plant, all underground, containing six huge generators with 17-ton flywheels. The construction, 90% completed, will be finished by the end of 1974. The 7-ft.-thick steel reinforced concrete walls are complete on the outside. Wooden stairs run up on top of the pyramid, out of which stare, one to a side, four empty radar eyes. These "radar support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: The ABM Temple at Grand Forks | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

Nixon's retention of Agnew pleased some key Republicans and disappointed others. "Agnew is a monster," conceded one White House staff member, "but he's Nixon's monster." Nixon appreciates Agnew's loyalty, privately concurs in his most controversial public views and, it seems certain, approved the themes of most of the Vice President's speeches before they were delivered. As one White House aide put it: "What was the President supposed to do? Call in Agnew and say, 'You did everything I asked you to do so now I'm dropping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: Nixon Declares an Encore for Spiro | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

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