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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Robots sometimes seem remarkably stupid to the engineers trying to educate them. A robot can cope with complex mathematical formulas, of course, but when it sees something through its TV camera, it has a hard time translating the two-dimensional image into three-dimensional reality. A robot instructed to look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Robot Revolution | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

Yet perhaps the most endearing virtue of big spenders is that they are wonderfully entertaining. There is nothing like them. If a conga line could be made up extending from Qin Shihuang and Elagabalus, through Hearst, the sheiks and Allan Carr, we would need no Broadway shows. It is not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Sad Truth About Big Spenders | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

The fierce, splendid land between Iran and India has always tempted conquerors: Genghis Khan, Tamerlane and scores of others preceded last year's Soviet invaders into Afghanistan. But the tribesmen there have proved to be as resistant as their terrain-from the desert of Nimruz, where men were once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Readings of the Season | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

As Britain's most eligible bachelor, Prince Charles produces front-page palpitations every time he is seen with a marriageable young woman. Until now, however, Buckingham Palace has kept a discreetly stiff upper lip when Fleet Street attempted to handicap the Prince's love life. Thus it was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Royal Pain | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

DIED. Rachel Roberts, 53, Welsh-born actress who rose to international prominence through her portrayals of working-class women in such English films as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) and This Sporting Life (1963); of as yet undetermined causes; in Los Angeles. After divorcing Actor Rex Harrison in 1971...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 8, 1980 | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

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