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...Caulfield, 53, Ehrlichman aide and former New York City police officer who tried to calm McCord and keep him from telling of White House connection to Watergate burglary. Suffered from ulcers and underwent stomach surgery. Works for Millionaire Industrialist Robert Abplanalp, one of Nixon's closest friends, at aerosol-valve manufacturing company in Yonkers...
...never wanted this," Allie Fox says of the culture of obsolescence and indulgence. "I'm sick of everyone pretending to be Dan Deaves in his L.L. Bean Moccasins, and his Dubbelwares, and his Japanese Bucksaw--all these fake frontiersman with their chuckwagons full of Twinkies and Wonderbread and aerosol cheesespread. Get out the Duraflame log and the plastic cracker barrel, Dan, and let's talk of self-sufficiency...
...Japan. Examples abound. An American maker of aluminum baseball bats was developing a good market for his product until the Japanese softball association ruled that his bats could not be used in tournament play. Reason: the label stamped on them supposedly made them defective. Companies selling products in aerosol spray cans complain that their cans must be 25% thicker in Japan than anywhere else in the world. Moreover, the outfit that inspects the incoming aerosol products is a prime Japanese spray-can maker...
...thing because, after all, this is a damn nice townhouse. There are still many points of common agreement--the New Right is outrageous (this week's paper includes two accounts of an anti-abortion conclave); capitalism has its excesses (a very good story about the seamy business at an aerosol factory that ended with three workers dead). A lot of the writing is still tremendous, in some cases better than at the village Voice, the only more alternative paper in the country with a bigger reputation. But, Mindich again: "If the publication is to become and remain successful, it must...
...them: such, at least, is the message conveyed by Robert Adams' From Lookout Mountain, Smog, No. 7,1970. It has some of the traditional ingredients: the high view, the extending valley. But tourists have changed the landscape forever, imposing on it their own cretinous expressionism: thanks to the aerosol can, their names (JOE, BILL) are writ large on the rocks, reversing the order of priorities that held in such places a century before. The MOMA show is full of such ironies and surprises. Although it cannot possibly do justice to its huge subject, at least it opens some approaches...