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...mass transit would presumably help by enticing commuters out of their cars. But the Southern California Association of Governments, which represents the 126 cities and counties stewing in the bowl of ambient filth known as the Los Angeles air basin, hoped to find another alternative. It turned to the Rand Corp. for an analysis of the problem. Lo and behold, the respected think tank recently produced what seemed at first glance to be model advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: End of a Life-Style? | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

...basic views have been greatly influenced by his friend and mentor, the Russian-born novelist and theorizer Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged), whom he has known since 1952. "America's abundance," she has written, "was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests." Of Greenspan's new job, Rand, 69, said last week: "I think it's an heroic undertaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMISTS: Super-capitalist at the CEA | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

...ROBERT RAND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 22, 1974 | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

Donald B. Rice, 35, took over the Rand Corp., the prototypical think tank, three years ago, at a time when the outfit was in deep disfavor with the Government because a former employee named Ellsberg had pinched some classified papers from its files. Young as he was, Rice was highly experienced: he became Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense just eight years out of college, and a year later, in 1970, was an assistant director at the Office of Management and Budget. Rice has sought to balance Rand's emphasis on war games and other national security matters by expanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: 200 Faces for the Future | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

Researchers have attempted to remove the lactose from milk. That solution is both expensive and self-defeating because it lowers the milk's vitamin content. Two University of Rhode Island researchers have announced a more practical recipe. Dr. Arthur Rand, a professor of food chemistry, and James Hourigan, a graduate assistant, have developed a process for changing lactose into glucose and galactose, two simple sugars that most people can digest. The process could enable millions to drink milk without misery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Milk Without Misery | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

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