Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...view from Staff Writer Chris Byron's office window is truly inspiring-if, that is, he happens to be writing about his favorite subject, energy. Byron has an unobstructed vista of the Manhattan headquarters of Exxon Corp., one of the world's richest industrial enterprises and perennial Most Valuable Player in the high-stakes game of international oil, the subject of this week's cover story. With help from Reporter-Researchers Lydia Chavez and Charles Alexander, Byron dissects the maddeningly complex, increasingly contentious process by which oil is discovered, delivered, refined, priced, taxed and, in too many...
...embarked upon his own conservation scheme. Last fall, just before he wrote a TIME story on what he calls "forest power," Byron installed two woodburning stoves in his Connecticut home. The move, he reports, "took $1,000 off my winter heating fuel bill." Tompkins, who lives in a Manhattan apartment building, doubts that wood is the proper alternative energy source for him, but does keep in touch with some relatives in Arizona who are building solar homes. That, says Tompkins, gazing out his office window at the Exxon building and a forest of other high-rise spires reaching toward...
...U.S.S.R. might approve a SALT II draft treaty within a few days. The White House had scheduled a background briefing for the press, and it was known that Jimmy Carter was planning to make SALT the centerpiece of his speech at the American Newspaper Publishers Association conference in Manhattan. There was even some speculation that he would use this forum to announce the conclusion of the talks...
...occasion requires, the ranks break apart like a set of Chinese boxes. In the course of two recent concerts at Manhattan's Lincoln Center-one devoted to the music of Aaron Copland, the other to works by Joseph and Michael Haydn-they subdivided into such combinations as a piano with string trio and a 13-piece mixed ensemble, besides playing at full strength...
Though one of the main Jainists principles advocates non-acquisition, Chitrabhanu says Jainists are no less materialistic than most people. The teacher himself lives in a sparsely furnished penthouse at a posh Manhattan address. "The Jain community is a very rich community in India, rather like the Jews here. They are governing all walks of life in business, in advocacy, in politics. In Boston, too, I have students who are doctors and lawyers. So they are luxuriant, but their life is governed by the central principles. What you need, you have, but the less you need, the more...