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At Loews, where his family controls 24% of the stock, Tisch operates hotels from Manhattan to Monte Carlo and owns subsidiaries that sell cigarettes, insurance and watches. This motley collection of businesses last year earned $589 million on sales of $6.7 billion. In addition to its stake in Loews, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All in the Family Fortune | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

But little and scattered is what many educators feel Harvard's core provides. The University of Massachusetts' Duffey describes its effect on learning as modest. Harvard, he says, does not "seem any closer to making judgments about the qualities of an educated mind." Others note that with the core, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Happy Birthday, Fair Harvard! | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

The stamp's arrival today in post offices nationwide followed more than a year of intense lobbying by at least one U.S. senator, Harvard Clubs from New York to Orange County, Calif., and scattered philatelically inclined alumni nationwide. The groups had to circumvent a 1971 U.S. Postal Service rule prohibiting...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Post Office Issues Stamp To Commemorate 350th | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

While the exploration of the legendary Titanic captured the imagination of the world, it was but one of many undersea forays now in progress. Even as J.J. roamed the corridors of the great ship, diving teams from Cape Cod, Mass., to the South Seas, wearing scuba tanks, masks and flippers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Down into the Deep | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

Fisher's team found the first certifiable remains of the Atocha in 1973, matching the identifying number on a recovered silver bar with one listed in the ship's manifest in the Seville archives. But because the cargo was scattered over nine linear miles, it took Fisher until 1985--and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Down into the Deep | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

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