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Perched atop the service elevator in Acapulco's pyramidal Princess Hotel, Repairman Lidio Sandoval was performing a routine maintenance check one morning last week, when suddenly the car began to rise. To his surprise, it ascended all the way to the forbidden 20th-floor penthouse, which elevators could reach only if summoned by a special key. Peering unseen through an open panel in the ceiling, he watched in fascination as a drama unfolded in the car below. Anxious aides and a doctor wheeled in a stretcher bearing an old, apparently unconscious man covered only by a yellow sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: THE HUGHES LEGACY SCRAMBLE FOR THE BILLIONS | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

...digging in Rhodesia is Lidio Cipriani, Professor of Ethnology at the University of Florence. Important has been his discovery of flint instruments, for they tend to prove that Rhodesia was a land of the living in prehistoric as well as medieval times. Last week the Professor reported a particularly exciting discovery? two "Bushman paintings" on rock, one on top of the other. Beneath was a well-dressed Arab. Above was a Bushman ferociously warring with Bantus. It was the first example of superimposed art to be found in Rhodesia. It promised under analysis to help historians to learn what races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beautify It | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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