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...Multi-Arc Scientific Coatings, of St. Paul, has built a thriving international business (1987 sales: $10 million) by using a Soviet technique for coating metal implements with gold-colored titanium nitride. The superhard coating protects drill bits and other parts from wear and corrosion, increasing their life-span from threefold to 30-fold...
Both East and West might make significant advances by expanding their modest contacts in high-tech fields. Says Multi-Arc Chairman Peter Flood: "If we were prepared to let them benefit from our production-engineering expertise in exchange for the scientific contribution they can make, the whole world would be better...
Frank Caprio concluded his tenure as co-captain by knocking in all three of the Harvard runs. Co-Captain Frank Morelli opened the Harvard sixth with a double, and then crossed the plate under the arc of Caprio's home run. In the seventh inning, Caprio's ground out brought in Marcel Durand to complete the Crimson scoring...
...director of the right-wing United Christian Action, as "designed to promote Marxist doctrine." But in Smith's view it was designed to promote understanding. The visitors saw a township where many of Pretoria's black workers reside in tiny four-room houses under the nighttime glare of powerful arc lights. "It gives the impression that someone is watching them day and night," said Louis Fourie, a white participant. The visitors shared their hosts' meals of cornmeal porridge and tripe. A Pretoria man shared a bed with a young black man who had once been jailed under the security laws...
...Because one of his murals was destroyed during the remodeling of a building, Painter Tom Van Sant has filed a $5.5 million lawsuit against the bank that commissioned the work, the building's new owners and the present tenant, AT&T. Meanwhile, its future still in the balance, Tilted Arc remains in lower Manhattan after seven years, more than ever the symbol of a divisiveness that the artist could not have imagined during its creation...