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What the workmen found was not gold, but a treasure nonetheless. It has now been identified as a huge pre-Columbian bas-relief of the Aztec moon goddess Coyolxauhqui. Probably sculpted in the early 15th century, the circular stone, 3.3 meters (11 ft.) across and weighing some 20 tons, has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Moon Goddess | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

Steinberg is a loner, a cosmopolitan Jewish exile, a refugee, a man of masks, languages and doctored identities, through whom the world's multiplicity is refracted as by a prism. In America, he is both outsider and insider: only he could have dreamed up the poster that summarizes the Manhattanite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World of Steinberg | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

Steinberg, on the other hand, dismisses (or refuses to pin down) the idea of such a transition. What marks the difference between his work and that of the easel painter, in his view, has always been more a question of medium than of aesthetic fullness. "I think of myself as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World of Steinberg | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

Once the Guggenheims were the richest Jewish family in the U.S. Today, no males who bear the family's name still practice Judaism. Solomon's grandson, who now heads the shrunken business empire, is an Episcopalian with an archetypically Waspish name, Peter Lawson-Johnston. Meyer was right. His...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gaggle of Googs | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

In the Northwood clash the Crimson got two runs in the sixth to break a 2-2 deadlock. Stewart scattered seven hits and gave up an earned run in going the distance, while Stenhouse was 2 for 3 with a double.

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Batsmen Tan Foes in Florida | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

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