Word: aspenization
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...Richfield in the newspaper business is Robert O. Anderson, 59, Arco's chairman. A part-time cattleman (his 1 million acres of ranch land make him one of the nation's largest individual landowners), philanthropist and self-styled student of social problems, Anderson is chairman of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, a social science think tank with offices round the world...
...first to make sculpture move, Calder liked "the idea of an object floating-not supported. The use of a very long thread seems to best approximate this freedom from the earth." The movement, created by touch or air, may be slow or fast, ponderously deliberate or fluttery as an aspen, but it always has the purposed yet unpredictable grace of nature itself...
...million in 1975 and so would not have had the money to make extensive changes this year even if its officials had wanted to. They did not; back solidly in the black, thanks largely to the success of the intermediate Cordoba and the compacts-Plymouth Volare and Dodge Aspen-Chrysler is tinkering with the three only a little. Volare, for example, gets a "super six" engine that is 20% more fuel efficient than...
...miles, moving eastward from the Continental Divide, it descends some 2,000 ft. The walls of the canyon tower over what used to be a pleasant trout stream sparkling in the depths below. The canyon was not unspoiled, but neither was it ruined by money: the big, Aspen-style condominiums had been kept away, and most of the 1,400 dwellings along the river were rustic cabins whose owners often were retirees...
Ford's high flyers are its mid-sized Granada and Lincoln Mercury Monarch models. At Chrysler, which has rebounded smartly into the black this year after losing $260 million in 1975, the sales stars are the mid-sized Cordoba and the popular new Aspen and Volare compacts. All of the Big Three are also getting a substantial lift from surging sales of vans and pickup trucks, which are up 40% this year, mostly because of their popularity in what some auto executives describe as the "blue denim" market. Says Chrysler Executive Vice President Richard K. Brown: "They used...