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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arco's chairman. A part-time cattleman (his 1 million acres of ranch land make him one of the nation's largest individual landowners), philanthropist and self-styled student of social problems, Anderson is chairman of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, a social science think tank with offices round the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A U.S. Pipeline to London | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

Other active systems use water or various antifreeze solutions as a heat-conducting medium (see diagram). In Hyde's house, water heated by the sun to around 200° F. is stored in a 2,500-gal. tank. Hot water then circulates through a heat coil over which air is blown by a fan and ducted to every room in the house. At Harry Evans' new home in East Hampton, N.Y., heat from solar panels in the roof is collected in a bin containing 1,000 sealed, plastic bottles of water, which can hold the heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Gift from the Sun | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...this point that the junta decided to strike back violently, having so far kept a low profile. The occupation was already assuming the dimensions of a general popular uprising, which it could not tolerate. From midnight of the 16th to the night of the 17th, the rumble of tanks was heard as they descended on the Polytechnic from their camps in the north of Athens. At three o'clock in the morning of the 17th, a tank smashed the main gate of the school and special mountain warfare units of the army stormed the building. The students, their hands...

Author: By Mietiades A. and Electra K., S | Title: There is no freedom with manacles: the Greek struggle continues | 11/23/1976 | See Source »

...peacemakers met with little opposition, and even some enthusiasm. "There was no incident at all connected with their entry into the Beirut suburbs," reports TIME's Abu Said Abu Rish from the Lebanese capital. "In the column that pushed down the main Beirut-Damascus highway, one tank crewman was singing Arabic songs through a megaphone; another sat atop his turret playing a shepherd's flute. In some places the troops were received with slaughtered lambs. In others women threw rice and tincture of orange blossoms over them in the traditional sign of welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Reshaping the Country, Syrian-Style | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

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