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American Limousines. The oil possessors are also on weak ground when they argue that they are now receiving a fair price for their resources. As TIME Economic Correspondent John Berry reports: "Such an argument implies that prices should have a 'moral' component, the nature of which is determined by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Trying to Cope with the Looming Crisis | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

Lamont goes on to deny that an Oedipal complex, arising from hate of a father who hobnobbed with J.P. Morgan and James J. Hill, was "operative" in his decision to become a socialist, Humanist, civil libertarian and world pacifist. True to form, just as throughout this compendium of essays Lamont...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: Renegade Patrician | 10/4/1974 | See Source »

So there was. The new chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers is a longtime friend and disciple of Ayn Rand, the Russian-born author whose novels of rebellious achiever-heroes (We the Living, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged) and nonfiction books have sold at least 12 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: The Chairman's Favorite Author | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

Despite the problems that the staff has attracting enough callers to deep them busy, the atmosphere in Stoughton basement appears remarkably warm and easy. The on-duty staffers sit on old furniture placed around a fading brown carpet in the center of the room. When one sits down there with...

Author: By Hope Scott, | Title: Room 13: A Little Help From Their Friends | 9/27/1974 | See Source »

There's no escape from the Island or the routine, and that's what makes Vineyard life perilous. Rational means-and-ends decisions are impossible because there are no ends. If one person offends another, they rarely "never speak again." It simply can't be avoided. They are trapped on...

Author: By Tom Lee, | Title: No Man Is a Vineyard | 9/18/1974 | See Source »

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