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...Delaware police dubbed him the Gentleman Bandit after he had held up six Wilmington area stores last winter. Not only did he brandish a chrome-plated pistol, but he was a natty dresser who always wore a fedora and treated his victims with elaborate courtesy. He once even apologetically told a clerk, "I wouldn't do this if I didn't have to." After seven holdup witnesses picked the same man out of a police lineup last February, the authorities indicted an unlikely suspect: the Rev. Bernard T. Pagano, 53, then assistant pastor at St. Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Mea Culpa | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...settling in Denver is Jerome Lewis, president of Petro-Lewis Corp., one of the country's 15 largest independent oil exploration and production companies. Lewis began as a consultant eleven years ago, and today he holds an interest in 11,000 wells in 21 states. Sitting amid the chrome and crushed velvet of Denver's Petroleum Club, Lewis gestures toward the Rocky Mountains still glazed with snow and exults: "This is today's big oil frontier. It is the most exciting thing in America's energy equation since the North Slope of Alaska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Denver's Mile-High Energy Boom | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...could not be called "either fair or free," largely because they were held under a constitution that reserves a disproportionate share of power for the white minority. Carter thus had a moral reason when he decided not to lift the economic sanctions that prevent the U.S. from buying Rhodesian chrome. Politically, moreover, the maintaining of sanctions puts the U.S. on the side of black Africa, and, as a bonus, scores points with American blacks who feel that Carter has been ignoring them. The President's judgment on that score was confirmed only two hours after he announced the decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sanctions Stay | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...whole engine-and-pylon assembly might have to be redesigned and manufactured with strengthened chrome steel, Duralumin and stainless steel fittings. These would be tested in wind tunnels, simulators and actual flights. The process could take weeks or months-or longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Debacle of the DC-10 | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...usually claustrophobic. Greenhouse structures with glass panels open the entrances to natural light. Unfortunately, the artists seem to have conspired to ruin this effect. William Wainwright's plans to build a series of giant mobiles to hang from the glass roof seem misdirected. Although Wainwright's compositions of oblong chrome and reflecting prisms would be great in Boston-Boston, one wonders what they'll add to the station. Carolos Dorrien's granite wall piece stands nearby, looking strangely uncomfortable for an inanimate object...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Take the Red Line... Please | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

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