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...those years, anything went. To eke out their meager stipends, parish priests could (and did) sell a 14th century predella out of the back door of their church for a few lire. The art market was full of floating masterpieces at whose origins dealers winked. The outstanding picture in the bequest, Sassetta's Our Lady of the Snow, is arguably the greatest surviving work by this unprolific Sienese master and worth, according to a spokesman at Christie's, "about $1,500,000." But it was stolen 60 years ago from the high altar of the church at Chiusi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sequestered Treasure | 9/14/1970 | See Source »

While Kern has appealed, a posse of friendly citizens has already galloped to the rescue. Last week more than 2,000 Texans showed up at a $5-a-head benefit barbecue, and other contributions are coming in to eke out the ransom on the high sheriff's financial future. There was no popular movement to compensate for the past injustice perpetrated on Whirl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bailing Out the Sheriff | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

With 50 fans cheering him on, Tarnas held off a late rally by Richard J. Baton 72 to eke out a half-pancake victory yesterday in the House dining hall...

Author: By Reay H. Brown, | Title: Stoned Soul Picnic | 12/18/1969 | See Source »

This elysian community actually exists. Its habitat is Africa's Kalahari Desert, a region so harsh and inhospitable that Western man would be hard put to eke out a living. But in that unforgiving neighborhood, the Bushmen, a golden-skinned, short-statured and cheerful people, have been living contentedly for thousands of years as hunter-gatherers subsisting on what nature provides without resort to agriculture. In Man the Hunter (Aldine Publishing Co., $6.95), a recent symposium of studies on primitive societies, Harvard Anthropologists Irven DeVore and Richard B. Lee note that "cultural Man has been on earth for some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anthropology: The Original Affluent Society | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...foreigners for working in Nigeria for ENl's marketing arm, AGIP. Ojukwu is convinced that without the oil royalties Nigeria receives from continuing drilling operations, his cash-short enemy would soon be brought to the negotiating table. "Oilmen are more dangerous than mercenaries," Biafran Information Minister Ifegwu Eke said last week. "These are the people responsible for our suffering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biafra: Reprieve for Eighteen | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

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