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In a chilling postscript to the affair, it turned out that the would-be assassin, Arthur Bremer, was stalking not only Governor George Wallace. Authorities learned soon after the shooting that in early April Bremer had registered at New York's Waldorf-Astoria at the same time Hubert Humphrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Bremer's Odyssey | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

In power, Nkrumah's big obsession was the Pan-African movement, a doomed design to unite Black Africa to fight the white settlers of South Africa, Mozambique and Rhodesia. At home, Nkrumah built roads, schools, clinics and a $200 million hydroelectric dam-a frenzy of spending that brought his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Death of a Deity | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

The commercial is really just a peculiar twist to Madison Avenue's increasingly tiresome obsession with nostalgia. Ole Bob, now 54, actually opens with his patented "Say, kids" routine, which is followed by a memory-jangling jingle, "It's Riunite time, it's Riunite wine . . ." Then Buffalo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: It's Riunite Time. . . | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

In these vast halls, where the galleries have no exit but only give way to more ramps, staircases and stone voids, a fearful obsession is at work - the experience of enclosure, of invisible watchers. Space, in the rest of Piranesi's work, is (for all its exaggerations) measurable. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Palaces of the Mind | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

The duke had an obsession with jewelry and opulent metalwork, and so one might expect all his court art to follow a pattern like that of the Limbourg brothers, who made him what must be the most famous set of miniatures in history-the Très Riches Heures du...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Images of Paradise | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

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