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...eleven, standing proudly in a cowboy hat beneath the cloudbuster. There is an old, well-kept Winchester carbine that his father, who was fond of guns, gave him. There is also an orgone blanket. Roughly 2 ft. by 3 ft., it is simply a layer of natural wool backed with steel wool that is kept in place by a fine mesh screen. "I used it recently on a cut finger and it healed quickly," says Peter. He also practices a few other Reichian techniques, including screaming and forced vomiting to soften up the "muscular armor"-the uptightness of the body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Family Affair | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

...have fueled Japanese inflation by engaging in widespread land and commodity speculation. A government study released this month accuses the six biggest trading houses of spending more than $2.5 billion in the past 18 months to buy up and hoard scarce supplies of land and such commodities as rice, wool, silk and soybeans. Prices of all these things have risen, and though the trading houses deny the charges, consumer tempers have gone up, too. Recently, carpenters who were laid off because of a lack of lumber demonstrated in Tokyo, brandishing placards that read: DOWN WITH SPECULATING TRADERS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Adaptable Octopuses | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...incredible sense of loyalty, both to me and to Nixon." Gray and Finch helped Nixon narrowly carry California, but when the national election was lost, Gray moved to New London, Conn., where he had been stationed at the submarine base. He joined the law firm of Sui-man, Shapiro, Wool & Brennan. Gray specialized in trusts, estates and taxes; he also spent many hours without charge to close the estates of sailors who went down with the submarine Thresher in 1963. Although New London is not big league in legal circles, it took Gray six years to become a partner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Fight Over the Future of the FBI | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

...small cloche hats pulled down to the eyebrows For evening, everything is soft and flowing in chiffon and crepe de Chine, bias cut to drape close to the body, just the thing for a moonlight tango with a gentleman in an Indian silk suit. The fabrics are natural-wool, linens, pure cotton-and difficult to care for, with a tendency to develop the rumpled badge of the thoroughly bred. "A poor man can't afford to look wrinkled," observes Lauren. "A rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The New Old Sports | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

Reese has blond hair and blue eyes. He is six feet tall and weighs 130 pounds. He was last seen wearing a blue parka, a wool flannel shirt and hiking boots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Seek Missing Harvard Student | 3/13/1973 | See Source »

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