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With that, almost all information requests-worthy or witless-gained equal weight. An oddball claiming to be followed by Martians demanded and received the record of his "correspondence" with the FBI on the subject. Commercial firms can-and do-try to use Government files as a marketing aid. Example: one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bureaucracy's Great Paper Chase | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

The brokers and the bank set up 14 dummy corporations to acquire the 30 separate parcels involved. So closely was the secret held that when one of the dummy companies set up by the bank's top brass sought a loan to buy a parcel of the block, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Classy Newcomer on the Skyline | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

Wachtel, 40, a former Air Force jet instructor-pilot who only started studying immunology in his 30s, does not yet know how the wrong chromosomes acquire the male gene; possibly the error is the result of a mutation or an accidental transfer of genes between chromosomes while the sperm are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Making Sure About Sex | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

It is Courbet's concreteness that strikes one first. He had an extraordinary power to realize sensations. No sky is airier, more washed with light, than the blue space of The Meeting. Apples in a dish acquire a red density, a solidity-a completeness of being-that no painted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Courbet: Painting as Politics | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

PERSONAL BOOK COLLECTIONS hold a special place in the lives of many Harvard students. The number and variety of bookstores in the Square reflects a high demand for books whose shelf presence for some is as important as their content. There is no reason that anyone desiring a private library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Worms | 11/19/1977 | See Source »

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