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...artists who, displaced by war, settled in America and began the ferment that culminated in what Art Historian Irving Sandler, in an infelicitously imperial phrase, recently called "the triumph of American painting." Yet the results of Mondrian's sojourn have to some extent been set on a back burner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Disciple's Progress | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

STOVES: A standard, burner-plus-oven electric range swallows $26.91 of power a year. A microwave oven will do most of the same cooking jobs for only $4.35 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: A Crib Sheet for Conscientious Savers | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

FURNACES: Cleaning a furnace once a year costs about $50 and is well worth it. A layer of soot just one-fiftieth of an inch thick can reduce an oil burner's efficiency by 50%. Radiators should be dusted regularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: A Kilowatt Counter's Guide to Saving | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

...Brown shoot its wad against Cornell or are the Bruins coming into their own? This could be barn-burner. Harvard 27, Brown...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 11/17/1973 | See Source »

...those at home was House Minority Leader Gerald Rudolph Ford, 60, keeping his cool in his suburban Virginia home with a 20-minute swim. He had just climbed out of the pool, the dinner steaks were on the burner, when the telephone rang. It was the President. Puckishly, almost as though he were a secretary, he said: "Jerry, Al Haig has a message for you." The White House chief of staff came on the line and said: "I've got good news for you. The President wants you to be Vice President." Haig suggested that Ford might want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: A Good Lineman for the Quarterback | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

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