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Dates: during 1970-1970
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There are other far-out experiments. One group, living at Sandstone, a handsome complex of houses near Los Angeles, has varied in size from three to twelve adults, and currently consists of only five: three men and two women. Says Barbara Williamson, a member of what she calls the "intentional" family: "It's a smorgasbord. It's so much more exciting to have nine different dishes than just one." The group has had no children yet because it wants to stabilize its "marriage" first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The American Family: Future Uncertain | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

...significant hydrocarbon contribution from the land [municipal wastes] contribute about 10 million tons of oil to the world's oceans each year." According to Blumer, the immediate effects of oil spills-dead fish and birds-are followed by long-term damage to marine ecology. "Compared to the size of the accidents," he said grimly, "the present countermeasures against oil in the oceans are inadequate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: To Save the Seas | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

...choices, and the pros are nothing if not thorough in casing the prospects. College records, glowing press clippings, gaudy trophies mean nothing in themselves. All that counts is a player's potential for prospering in the brutal world of pro football-a survival test that is measured in size, speed, strength and skill, plus a certain intangible that pro coaches like to call "desire." That is how TIME has chosen its All-America Team since 1958, and those were the criteria for the choices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: TIME'S All-America Team: Prime Prospects For the Pros | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

...Coach Darrell Royal calls him a "superplayer, who hasn't played a bad game in three years." As another coach puts it with telling simplicity: "He just gets out there and stirs folks around." Florida's Youngblood creates a different kind of havoc. Deceptively fast for his size, he reads screens and swing passes so adroitly that he intimidates quarterbacks by his mere presence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: TIME'S All-America Team: Prime Prospects For the Pros | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

...Harley Staggers. That Congress seemed to be bowing to the bullying strike threats of Dennis and others worried some legislators. "If we do this," cautioned Senator Gordon Allott, a Colorado Republican, "we are going to be settling wage disputes in every industry in this country that is of sufficient size to have an influence on the national economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Day the Trains Stopped | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

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