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Multimillionaire James Derrick Slater, co-founder of the London investment banking firm Slater, Walker Securities Ltd., credits his hobby-chess-with making him Britain's king of mergers. Analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of companies all over the world, Slater would then acquire some of them through quick, strategic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: English Defense | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

Amuzegar nonetheless clearly resented some of his neighbors. "Everybody considers Iran to be the villain in raising prices," he said. But "it is the Arabs" who are forcing up prices with their takeovers of foreign oil companies and buy-back arrangements. Last week, for example, Kuwait's government approved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: Pondering the Tasks Ahead | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

This obsession led to an undeniable grandeur. An early composition like Still-Life: Bottles and Knife testifies to that. Tuned down to the subtlest inter play of gray over gray, unified by the stippled crust of Gris's opaque and polished pigment, these simple objects acquire the amplitude and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Eminence Gris | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

Kenny may not have been a Southerner by blood, but he wanted the freedom to get loose and do crazy things, and his major if seemingly impossible ambition was to acquire a lot of land in the state which professors at the University of Florida said had the fastest rising...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: A Midnight Rider and the Flyin' Florida Omelet | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

In his letter, Solzhenitsyn asked the Kremlin leaders to abandon Marxist ideology, as the root of all Soviet society's evils. Sakharov believes that this plea shows a misunderstanding of modern power politics. He argues that a dominant characteristic of Soviet society is an indifference to ideology, which is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: A Dissident Disagrees | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

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