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- What leads a writer to choose his specialty? For Andrew
- Tobias, it was his experience as a part-time entrepreneur at
- Harvard in the late 1960s. Joining in several college-run
- ventures, he rented refrigerators to dorm dwellers and helped
- write the popular Let's Go: The Student Guide to Europe. Says
- Tobias: "I learned a lot in a short time, but I decided that I
- have more fun writing about business than trying to run one."
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- By the time he earned his M.B.A. at Harvard Business School
- in 1972, Tobias had published the first of his seven books.
- Among them: Fire and Ice, a biography of Revlon co-founder
- Charles Revson; The Invisible Bankers, a critique of the
- insurance industry; and The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever
- Need, all big sellers. A prolific contributor to New York,
- Esquire and other magazines, Tobias has also written a computer
- program, Managing Your Money, which since 1984 has sold more
- than 250,000 copies.
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- Starting this week, Tobias will write a regular column for
- TIME called "Money Angles," which will appear in the Business
- section every two or three weeks. Tobias will write primarily
- about personal investing but will occasionally comment on wider
- economic and financial issues. Says Business editor Stephen
- Koepp: "Andy brings a rare combination of irreverence and
- expertise to these topics. Whenever he troops through the
- jungles of financial arcana, he always emerges with pithy,
- practical advice for his readers and unusual insights into the
- latest financial trends. He skewers the bad deals and scouts out
- the good ones."
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- Twenty summers ago, millions of Americans heard the words
- "the Eagle has landed" as astronaut Neil Armstrong prepared to
- take man's first steps on the moon. During the next three weeks,
- 174 local TV stations in the U.S. will broadcast Man in Space,
- a one-hour video history of space exploration. Produced by TIME
- Magazine Television and California-based GGP, the program will
- feature footage from the archives of NASA, U.P.I. and other
- sources. The show will also include interviews with U.S. and
- Soviet space pioneers, who now dream of the next goal: manned
- exploration of Mars.
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