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...prison record when he applied for a job at the Bechtel Corp. His employer discovered the truth. Although he was allowed to keep his $90-a-week job as an office boy, Anderson is now convinced that he will have an endless amount of trouble advancing above the level of "a flunky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Draft: How The Resisters Fare | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

Clearly, some of the competitors would have been better off at sea level. In the 10,000 meters, for example, none of the first three finishers even man aged to equal the Olympic qualifying standard. But in most of the other events, the thin air was obviously no great hindrance. California's Geoff Vanderstock pared .3 sec. off the world record for the 400-meter intermediate hurdles. Another Californian, Jim Hines, tied the world mark of 10 sec. flat in the 100-meter dash. Army SP/4 Tom Farrell ran one of the fastest 800 me ters of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Track And Field: Flying High | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...ranging enterprise, Utah Construction & Mining Co. has spent hardly any money on advertising or public relations. For good reason. "We don't sell to the ultimate consumer," explains President Edmund W. Littlefield, 54. "We have relatively few customers, and relations with them are handled directly at the executive level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mining: A Long Way from Utah | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

Room for Privacy. The Kreegers' collecting did not cease while construction was going on. Indeed, so many new pictures were added that Johnson and Kreeger wound up adding three new galleries on the level below the main floor. Picassos and Chagalls now hang in the recital room, where Kreeger plays his Stradivarius in string quartets with old friends, including Abe Fortas. A smaller chess room contains surrealists. Liveliest of all is the gallery that the Kreegers call their "trial and error room." Its walls display their latest contemporary acquisitions, including works by Thomas Downing, Charles Hinman, James Rosenquist, Milton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collectors: It Takes a Lot of Space To Make a Museum a Home | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

...works on the same principle as a Ferris wheel: cars are parked on gondola-like platforms that are rotated up and around by a single attendant. When a driver calls for his car, the attendant pushes a console button and the wheel brings platform and car down to ground level. Costing about $4,000 per space, the system is economical at its usual 26-30 car capacity, and some 52-car facilities have been built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Ways to Park a Car | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

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