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Such investment devices have greatly pushed up land prices because they thrive on speculation. Atlanta syndicators readily admit that they may trade the same property two or three times in 18 months, marking up its price each time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: The New American Land Rush | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

...Thriving Groups. California's Jesus People, who started the whole movement, are not seen on the streets much any more, but many of the earliest groups still thrive. Chuck Smith's Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, which has six touring bands, had to put up a tent for the overflow crowds, then an auditorium that holds 2,000. The Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation near Saugus has bought a 160-acre farm, a gas station, a thrift shop and a motel. Kent Philpott s ministry north of San Francisco runs a construction business and several farms, plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Jesus Evolution | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

Their concern is well founded, because the effects of cholera can be catastrophic. The disease is caused by comma-shaped bacteria that thrive in contaminated water supplies. The bugs do even better in the human intestine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cholera on the March | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

Despite the pressures on him, Allende still displayed the fast political footwork and crowd-pleasing oratory that have kept him in office for three years. A crisis a day has become his staple fare, and he seems to thrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: More Civil Than War? | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

...have watched, rejoiced, suffered and agonized through their tenure at Harvard--but you still may find the incredibility of an Edo, a Radcliffe crew, an Yntema, a Crimson baseball juggernaut to temper and minimize your loss, to fill the vacuum left by characters that no longer thrive in Cambridge. And most importantly, you may yet produce, in the vague and limitless four years apportioned you here, people and teams that will transcend the memories and ghosts of the departed.HESS YNTEMA...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Where Have All the Heroes Gone? | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

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