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...world of art, the equivalent of Paul's journey to Damascus. He spent his working life in France, but he remained a Spaniard to his elegant fingertips. His piercing, unblinking deep-chestnut eyes spoke of the Spanish soul's passion. Even after he began to prosper, he was content to dress and live like a Spanish peasant, eating beans and drinking coarse red wine, in loud cafes and private rooms of indescribable clutter. And though it was in France that he found fame and fortune, he remained curiously indifferent to that nation's life struggles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Trajectories of Genius | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

...1950s World began to prosper when it was awarded military and passenger contracts serving the Far East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Happy Gambler of the Air | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

...always been regarded as raw and risky, people accepted the system because it held out the promise that hard work and talent would lead to high rewards. Not everybody was created economically equal but, with the indefensible exception of some minorities, everybody had a full, free opportunity to prosper. Ever distant frontiers and ever brighter tomorrows created a nation of optimists, who believed that a rising tide lifts all boats. This was the U.S. social contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Capitalism: Is It Working...? Of Course, but... | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...some of America's largest corporations in the past decade, and by many measures they have changed the nation as much as did the clamorous '60s kids. These corporate chiefs are activists in society and politics, for they know that no company is an island; none can prosper for long if the country is unsound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: The Corporate Chiefs' New Class | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...agreed to invest $100 million in the titanium mine and to give Williams an undisclosed share of the mine's stock without charge. At a rendezvous in Arlington, Va., the Senator said he would talk to high officials in Government to seek military contracts to help the mine prosper. As he was about to catch a plane to Europe from Kennedy Airport, Williams accepted the stock certificates. They had been made out to a longtime associate of the Senator's, Alexander Feinberg, a New Jersey lawyer who had endorsed the stock, making it transferable to Williams. According...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FBI Stings Congress | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

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