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...lower buildings, the situation is dramatically better, if not completely so. The mailboxes are intact; only the buildings' outsides are covered with grafitti. Rows of plywood windows--signs of burned out apartments--appear only in the tower...

Author: By Lewis Clayton, | Title: Roosevelt Towers Burns While Bureaucrats Fiddle | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

Many of their finds were hitchhikers whom they picked up. They would invite the youths to Corll's home for "parties" of paint and glue sniffing. There the victims would be handcuffed to a specially constructed plywood board, sexually abused, and finally strangled or shot with Corll's .22-cal. pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Houston Horrors | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

Ernst was born in a small town outside Cologne. His father was a schoolteacher. From earliest childhood Ernst seems to have acquired haunting visual images. Some came during sickness. He remembers being ill and staring for hours at some mahogany plywood paneling, discerning there the shape of a dove, a nightingale, a girl-chimera-all familiar in his work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Inexhaustible Max | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...industrial operations is Sefen, a joint venture owned equally by seven kibbutzim and Ampal, the foreign-investment arm of the Israel Federation of Labor. Sefen's first factory, built in 1952 on the torrid Jordan Valley floor south of the Sea of Galilee, converted waste from a kibbutz plywood factory into insulator board. When Israel's building boom began in 1953, Sefen switched to making construction board. Now Sefen is a four-factory operation that last year earned a profit of $725,000 on revenues of over $11 million. It produces adhesives, scientific radiation equipment and laminates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Profits on the Kibbutz | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...Presidents Kennedy and Johnson who took over as president of the Board of Trade nearly five years ago. In order to increase trading during periods when speculative activity in farm goods is slack, Wilson has moved the board into making a futures market for such nonagricultural products as plywood and silver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENT: Chicago's Other Option | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

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