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His mother's sense of desolation in the small town was further chaffed by the Updikes' poverty. When John was 13, his family had to move to his grandparents' 90-acre farm ten miles away where John's father, Wesley, now 68 supported the five of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Authors: View from the Catacombs | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

For the few it does admit-10% of them are M.D.s, most of the others college graduates with science degrees-the rewards are plentiful. The university has an endowment of $220 million and an annual budget of $16,290,000, and its pleasantly landscaped, 15-acre riverside campus features a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Community of Scholars | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

Shades of the gold rush. In Virginia City, Nev., prospectors jammed the land office to stake out claims near the old Comstock Lode. New find? No. Old sharpie. Word was out that Mystery Zillionaire Howard Hughes, 62, had just paid $225,000 for a 480-acre claim in the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 12, 1968 | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

Seizing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to inject new life into the city core, San Antonio has dredged out a short waterway linking the fair to the San Antonio River and threaded the 92.6-acre HemisFair site itself with a network of canals. It has refurbished its heritage by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Expositions: Tivoli in Texas | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

Perhaps the most unorthodox concept of the agreement negotiated by the college and state, local and Negro representatives is a community council to be formed within a month to establish nonprofit community-housing cooperatives. The council will ensure that local Negroes have a hand, in every phase of the new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newark: Progress--& Poison | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

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