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Menten grew progressively richer by speculating in stocks and art objects, filling his 20-room mansion with more art works (his collection includes paintings by Nicolaes Maes, Francisco Goya and Jan Sluyters), and building up millions of dollars in real estate holdings. His undoing began last spring with publicity that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAZIS: The Collector: Art and the SS | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

HOWARD ECKERSLEY, about 51, a University of Utah psychology graduate who became a Hughes favorite one day in the 1950s by filling in when the master's regular movie projectionist showed up drunk. Eckersley has seven children and is an energetic tennis player despite having suffered a broken back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Keepers of the King | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

Wright offers no actual examples of a libertarian society in action, although he suggests that the Founding Fathers thought along somewhat libertarian lines and implemented many libertarian principles when they designed American government. The only attempt to set up a totally libertarian world occurred when a group of libertarians claimed...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: Ergo: The right point of view | 12/2/1976 | See Source »

The editorial speaks of filling the gap between "the sectarian legacy of the socialist left, and the timidity and incapacity of the social reform tradition." Weinstein seems to think the issue of corporate capitalism, ignored by the Democrats and Republicans, can give rise to a new party, just as the...

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: Rehabilitating the Left | 11/30/1976 | See Source »

Other problems stand in the way of large-scale conversion to solar energy. Engineers have yet to figure out effective ways to store heat from the sun for more than three days or to tap solar energy for power production without filling huge tracts of land with reflectors or photovoltaic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Gift from the Sun | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

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