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"I was so surprised that I almost dropped my store teeth", says Walter Holmes, an official of the Interior Department. What amazed him was a new surge of interest in one of the nation's most exotic sources of energy. His office has been flooded by 2,456 applications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TECHNOLOGY: Steam from the Earth | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

Not so with René Magritte. The 34 Magrittes on display here (some of which, like The Human Condition, 1935, with its painted landscape on an easel in front of a window and continuous with the "real" painted landscape seen beyond, have virtually become surrealist icons) remain unpredictable despite their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Psychic Roots of the Surreal | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

But even with my attacking instincts, and my ability to upset my opponents by clever psychological tricks (my favorite was to say "that stinks!" every time they made a move) I began to drop behind the other prodigies on the block. While they were plumbing the mystical depths of Reti...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: Check and Mate | 2/28/1974 | See Source »

Culture Talks. Thereafter, he operated with no restraints at all - not even from a board of directors. He bet his own money on his hunches. If he lost big when he tried to convert an opera star like Mary Garden into a movie star, he won big by importing exotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Last Mogul | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

A healthy-looking and cheerful George Wallace, 54, was on a sojourn in a bastion of what he has called the pointyheads who can't park a bicycle straight: New York City. After accepting a Freedom Award from the right-wing Order of Lafayette, Wallace visited his doctor, Ling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 17, 1973 | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

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