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...because he "just wanted a fighter to cover up his dope racket." The officials called Dixon's last fight a draw, but, he says, "the way I felt afterwards, I didn't really feel like going into the ring again." His boxing career ended, and with a one-string tin-can bass, he began his career as a performer. Later, a big-time gambler bought him his first upright bass, and he started performing at Martin...

Author: By Cynthia Bellamy, | Title: Willie Dixon's Blues Alive in White World | 8/10/1973 | See Source »

barracks. By the end of the year the Saigon government hopes to resettle all the refugees. Recently, the first 24,000 moved into new wood-and-tin huts at seven villages near Hai Lang in Quang Tri province. With their teeming marketplaces, the new communities are virtually indistinguishable from villages elsewhere in Viet Nam. Yet U.S. officials wonder how these people will fare on the poor soil after their government supply of rice runs out in six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIETNAM: Butterflies and Spiders in I Corps | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

...exhibition indicates, a favorite studio assignment of several professors required that a two-dimensional surface be modulated to create the illusion of three dimensions. Among the solutions were toothpicks glued to pieces of paper, nails pounded into wooden bases at different heights, and holes punctured in tin. Another series of forms shown evolved from the problem of joining modular units together into a larger structure...

Author: By Lydia Robinson, | Title: Ten Years of Problems | 4/26/1973 | See Source »

...composition clearly accepting the limits of the frame. (Eventually those circles will be reduced to thumbprints on the smooth field, and finally can be observed as mere drops.) Olitski's characteristic banishment of all drawing to the edges of the canvas appears soon afterward, in paintings like Tin Lizzy Green, but comes into its real success only in 1965 after Olitski begins to apply the paint with spray guns...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: To the Edge and Back | 4/21/1973 | See Source »

Administration officials voiced hope that the mere threat of stockpile sales would help keep prices in line. The announcement did throw a scare into commodity traders. Prices of copper, silver, zinc and tin futures retreated-but copper and silver had recovered by week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Housewife Power? | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

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