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until Sept. 1 to eliminate the sickening stench of burning bones from its chicken-rendering plant. At a Chicago convention, the American Petroleum Institute earmarked $1,800,000 for research on purer air and water next year, on top of $41 million that in dividual oil firms will spend to control pollution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Industry: Purifying the Effluent Society | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...most pressing problem, a chronic shortage of revenue, could be solved only by new taxes. (New Jersey and Nebraska are the only two states in the Union that do not levy statewide taxes on income or retail sales.) Nor did the candidates electrify the populace with pleas for purer water, cleaner air, faster transit facilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Jersey: The Genovese Campaign | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

Reader complaints about movie ads were a principal reason for the Times's purer code. "We are convinced that moral and social values have not decayed as frequently portrayed," Reimer told advertisers, "and we trust that together we can find a better standard of values in the area of 'good taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Censoring Sex | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

...observed Dictator Benito Mussolini. Combining themes, he carved out a lesser heroism: his sculptures show stumbling horses and fearful men. In this show are some of the sculptures, but twelve lithographs, paired with his wife's poetry, and ten oils on paper show a purer image of horse and rider charging, falling, rising again with more courage than their predecessors. Through April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art in New York: Apr. 10, 1964 | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...squares almost invisible to the eye. Miriam Schapiro, Brach's wife, shows a series of panels, similar in motif to Renaissance cassoni, or hope chests, in which she paints the fertility symbol of an egg. Over a three-year period, the egg forms grow more nebulous, less sensual, purer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Second-Generation Abstraction | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

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