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Safeguards Demanded. Few Alaskans foresaw the delay in 1968, when Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) and Humble Oil brought in spectacularly successful wildcat wells at Prudhoe Bay. Reserves were initially estimated at 10 billion barrels, but are now figured to be 15 billion, fully one-third of the nation's total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Alaska's Frustrating Freeze in Oil | 7/26/1971 | See Source »

SAVAGE, THE MAN OF BRONZE! Startled, the browser glanced left and right; nobody was looking. Then with a furtive movement he snatched The Man of Bronze off its shelf and, slipping it deftly under a copy of Hazlitt's essays, strolled thoughtfully toward the cashier. Doc Savage? If you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to the Gore of Yore | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

Even before President Nixon lifted the embargo on direct trade with China (see THE WORLD), some of America's largest companies were breaking into Mao's market. Among them: General Motors, Monsanto, Hercules, Cummins Engine and American Optical. U.S. business with the Chinese has risen from nothing in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Little Red Order Book | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

Bulldozers and Cashmere. The Commerce Department is preparing a new list of items for direct sale to China. The list will ban the export of almost all industrial goods but is likely to permit sales of Pharmaceuticals, foods and other commodities. The Chinese appear to want a great many American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Little Red Order Book | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

A most alluring painting, a fresco, is Picro della Francesca's Hercules. The Italians also felt this work quite attractive, for laws were established to prevent taking such masterpieces out of the country, Mrs. Gardner had already bought the giant; it was only a question of getting him to Boston...

Author: By Meredith A. Palmer, | Title: The Gardner Museum | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

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