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...Richard Lyng knows anything better than the agricultural business, it is agricultural politics. A native Californian, Lyng, 67, started his career by taking over his father's bean-and-seed-processing business in 1949 and doubling profits during the next 18 years. He went on to hold top positions in the agriculture departments of California Governor Ronald Reagan and President Richard Nixon. After a six-year stint as head of the American Meat Institute, he returned to the USDA as Deputy Secretary during Reagan's first term as President. In Washington he has earned a reputation as a smooth operator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agriculture: An Old Hand Gets a New Job | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...feelings are real enough. They speak of a need for location in the world--in light, wind, water, all the shimmering epidermis of experience. Bartlett, after all, is a native Californian. Her titles almost always suggest places (At the Lake, At Sea, Swimmers Atlanta) or actual addresses (2 Priory Walk, 123 E. 19th Street). For some viewers, at least, her maturity as an artist begins with an outpouring of drawings and paintings around 1980, all on the same subject: the garden of a rented house in the south of France, an unremarkable scene of a small rectangular pool surrounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fluent, Electric, Charming | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

Horace Marden Albright was only 26 during that August in 1916 when the National Park Service was created. A wily Californian, bursting with energy, he was possessed by a vision of how to preserve the nation's grandeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Present At the Preservation | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...This is my first," said a Californian, sipping Bud and surveying the twisted trees bending in the wind. "Why sit indoors? None of the soaps are on TV. Why watch the news when you can see the hurricane with your own eyes?" Danger? "Who cares about flying roofs and airborne automobiles," said the student, clad in his finest hurricane garb: shorts, a t-shirt and Ray-Bans. "I've got eyes, I can duck." Nice shades...

Author: By Ben Sherwood, | Title: Dealing With Gloria | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

With so attentive an audience, Ballard, a devoted student of Titanic lore, could not resist bringing up a controversial subject: the actions of Stanley Lord, captain of the liner Californian, who Ballard said was definitely within reach of the sinking ship and may have ignored its white distress flares. Lord claimed at investigations of the tragedy that the Californian was more than 19 miles north of the sinking ship. "The Californian was inside of ten miles, perhaps as close as four miles," Ballard insisted, "and there is no doubt it could have gone in there and rescued those people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Haunting Images of Disaster | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

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