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...Chicago, the Terra Museum of American Art has a different agenda. Daniel Terra, 76, head of Lawter International Inc., the Illinois-based manufacturing firm, raised millions for Ronald Reagan's campaign fund and was given the Ruritanian honorific of "Ambassador-at-Large for Cultural Affairs" -- as though culture, to an Administration that spends virtually as much on military bands as on the National Endowment for the Arts, were a foreign state. Ambassador Terra, as he likes to be called, is an enthusiastic buyer of 18th, 19th and early 20th century American...
Women's Medical Fund, Inc...
Brought up in Texas, Satterwhite came to the magazine staff in 1976 after ten years at Time Inc.'s editorial library and a year in Paris doing research for a book. By November of that year, she had become the head researcher in the Nation section, where for eight years she was immersed in the news and in managerial challenges as well, adapting the section's routine to events each week. Nowadays, when she is not gently cajoling or encouraging her staff, Satterwhite spends her free moments working on the economic theories and equations she is studying for her M.B.A...
...most prominent of Ollie's operatives was Richard Secord, the retired Air Force major general who had helped to create several private companies, including Lake Resources Inc., a Panamanian shell corporation with a Swiss bank account. Through Secord's companies, North was able to move Iranian arms money, buy planes, charter ships and perform myriad tasks that seemed beyond the abilities of the Government bureaucracies. Says Livingstone: "Ollie was in a white rage all the time over the help the CIA gave him." In a computer note to National Security Adviser John Poindexter, North wondered, "Why Dick can do something...
...Byrd, the G- stringed host and self-described "X-rated Ed Sullivan" of Manhattan's lube tube. "My show is for adults," she says. "If children watch it, it's because parents aren't doing their job." So it would seem. In 1985 Manhattan Cable (a subsidiary of Time Inc.) offered its 228,000 subscribers the option of a "lock box" so parents could scramble Channel J. Only 19 boxes were installed...