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...turned out that Luongo is an associate of Anthony Pugliese, the previously unidentified collector who bought the gun at auction last December for $220,000. Luongo had taken the pistol to Washington to display it on a cable-TV show about Ruby's shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Firearms: Have Gun, Will Travel | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

...Emperors is based on dozens of interviews in China and scores of documents and memoirs. The reporting is set out so thoroughly that readers are prepared to believe its accounts not only of how Mao turned on his closest comrades but also that he was a satyr, pornography collector and drug addict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex, Drugs and Mao Zedong | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...COLLECTOR OVERDOSE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forward Spin: Feb. 3, 1992 | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

...that his brother left after he died in jail in 1967 while awaiting a retrial. Like so much else in the story of the Kennedy assassination, the identity of the purchaser remains a mystery. The bidder, Frank Roman, says he bought the pistol on behalf of an anonymous gun collector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auctions: Have Gun, Will Gavel: Have Gun, Will Gavel | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

This was a particularly bright year for photovoltaics, the technology for converting sunlight into electricity. First Texas Instruments and Southern California Edison developed a silicon solar collector they claim will halve the cost of squeezing juice from the sun. Then a pair of researchers in Switzerland came up with an efficient photovoltaic device fashioned after the greatest solar cells of all: the chlorophyll molecules in plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991: Science | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

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