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Says one worker in Harvard's benefits office inside Holyoke. "I'm less concerned now that I know something is being done than when they had just the wood there...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Holyoke Center Crumbles | 11/2/1983 | See Source »

...telephone. His father was a laborer and broncobuster; his mother spoke almost no English and was only semiliterate in Spanish. By the age of seven he was working before and after school at his brother's grocery store as well as milking the family cows and chopping wood. "I've been on the same treadmill ever since," he says. "I've never learned to relax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking Out for No. 1 | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...tells us, he had vanquished Heavyweight Champ Jack John son at arm wrestling; he had met Jorge Luis Borges, and found him tedious; Picasso had given him a painting (which he lost), and Lorca had written poems to him (which he quotes). Later, in Holly wood, Charlie Chaplin thoughtfully ar ranged an orgy for Buñuel, and in New York, the power of the Roman Catholic Church was flexed to remove him from an editing job at the Museum of Modern Art (where one of his tasks had been to cut Leni Riefenstahl's Nazified master piece. Triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dry Martini | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...Tift Wood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Head of the Charles Results | 10/25/1983 | See Source »

...that uses a catalytic converter, similar to those found in emission-controlled cars, to re-burn the smoke and gases. The Shelburne Catalytic converter is 2 in. high, 8 in. in diameter and perforated like a honeycomb. It is coated with palladium, causing a chemical reaction that ignites the wood gases at 500° F (instead of the usual 1,000° F), converting them into heat. The recovered heat is then pushed out into the room with a blower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Hot Times | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

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