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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Heather, who attended a coed high school in Wilmington, Del., said that her move to Leverett is not in reaction to the all-woman floor she lives on in Comstock Hall. "It didn't even occur to me in those terms," she said...
Ever since Du Pont scientists in the 1930s mixed coal tar, air and water to produce nylon, the wizards of Wilmington, Del., have been searching and researching for another equally profitable synthetic smash. By 1964, Du Pont chemists thought that they had found it: a porous polymer that looked and felt like leather, yet wore like armor plate. The company thereupon introduced Corfam, a weatherproof shoe material, predicting that by 1984 every fourth foot in the country would be encased in it. Du Pont stock rose to an all-time...
Last week the Department of Commerce, prompted by ecologists, decreed that U.S. fishermen may no longer hunt whales. As sometimes happens, it was a gesture of conservationist piety made too late. Only three whaling ships remain in the U.S.: they are operated by the Del Monte Fishing Co. of San Francisco. The firm's manager, Charles Caito, says that his men took only 109 of the 21,000 whales killed in the North Pacific last year. All the other prosaic Ahabs are Russian or Japanese, who will not be affected by the ban. They must, presumably, await the wrath...
GOOD professional athletes often acquire mystical followers. People accustomed to the skills of the superstars come to believe that the good guys can only win. I once so worshipped the New York Giants, Y. A. Tittle and Del Shofner handled the football so beautifully that they could not fail. On Sundays I could balance Tittle's lyrical bombs with the brutal contact of Roosevelt Greer and Sam Huff and happily watch the Giants mutilate they lost and their following dwindled...
...Flake Streamline Baby? Today's conceptual artists specify context where previously most artists have not. Just putting works into an exhibit puts works in context: does a painting of an apple look the same when in Gertrude Stein's collection as when in the collection of the President of Del Monte canned foods? Yet how we arrange paintings within the exhibition creates smaller contextual elements clarifying and defining the larger whole; these smaller elements are the visual evidence imperative to any visual lesson. An exhibition becomes a work of art itself: a statement made through visual context and a statement...