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...forms with a harsh kind of super-reality. The sallow leaves of a dead cactus writhe upward like a petrified fountain. A palm hangs against the sky like a bursting skyrocket. On the ground, a beetle crawls. Above it, crouches a man - no figment of a dream but a com pact figure with grey thinning hair, a potato nose, and dressed all in sober brown. "Once," he "I was passionate about insects. I painted many of them." In fact, he still does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Father for Today | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...margin. In other primary races: ¶ Florida's former Governor LeRoy Collins also suffered through an election-night cliffhanger in his bid for the Democratic nomination to the Senate seat that George Smathers is vacating this year. An urbane lawyer and former director of the President's Com munity Relations Service, Collins, 59, narrowly defeated Florida Attorney General Earl Faircloth, who ran as a "conservative alternative" and forced Collins into last week's runoff election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Primaries: Wayne by a Whisker | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

...onetime Texas A. & M. distance runner, long-strided his way into the merger derby. Today, renamed Gulf Resources & Chemical Corp., Allen's company is a broadly based natural-resources producer with an annual sales rate of over $100 million. Explains Allen: "We did not want to be a com pany with a single mineral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Natural Resources: The $100 Million Run | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

...Dean of the Faculty will require additional assistance to carry out the recommendations of this report. For many years the responsibility and span of authority of the Dean have been very large and have been growing. This Committee has com...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Excerpts from the Dunlop Report | 5/22/1968 | See Source »

...wider consideration. Oppenheimer Industries, a Kansas City-based, real-es-tate-managemeift firm, was long happy with a fairly generous pay plan for employees on summer-training duty. Now that its board chairman, Harold Oppenheimer, a colonel in the Marine reserves, is on duty in Viet Nam, com pany officials say that they are working out something for those "called up for an indefinite tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: For Those Who Are Called | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

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