Word: designer
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...getting a little too serious for Dyson. "I have seen people engaged in heavy discussions on television about the new taste. People have to loosen up a bit." And it is all happening, quite by design, just when the summer season is about to begin and roughly 2 billion gal. of cola will be sipped, chugged or spilled. Dyson is convinced that his company has done the right thing at a time when Americans are "predisposed to change." Says he: "When the dust settles, we will be successful, and, well, I'm sorry, Coke is better." American consumers, of course...
DIED. Charles LeMaire, 88, designer of glittering, sumptuous costumes for Hollywood films from 1943 to 1960 and, before that, for more than 60 Broadway shows, including the '20s extravaganzas of Florenz Ziegfeld; in Palm Springs, Calif. After successfully campaigning for an Oscar category in costume design (it started in 1948), he was nominated 16 times and won for All About Eve (1950), The Robe (1953) and Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing...
Black Sparrow Press, located in a sunny villa some 300 miles south of North Point in Santa Barbara, is an even smaller house. Its staff of six includes John Martin, 54, publisher, and his wife Barbara, 45, designer. The Martins, who work out of their home, are relentlessly noncommercial: "If Evan Connell came to me with a Custer book," claims Martin, "I wouldn't be interested in publishing it." Black Sparrow began in 1966, when Martin, then an office- supply executive, sold his valuable collection of D.H. Lawrence first editions and decided to go into business for himself. He sedulously...
...gate house next to Johnston Gate in the Yard cost Harvard $25,000 to construct and was chosen from more than 330 design plans. But rather than opting for the amusement-park look, University officials at the time chose colonial-style architecture, hoping that the small structure would blend as unobtrusively as possible into its Yard surroundings...
Today many Soviet weapons are reasonable facsimiles if not exact duplicates of American ones. The Soviet AWACS and space shuttles are carbon copies of earlier U.S. models. The Boeing short takeoff and landing (STOL) prototype, a breakthrough aerodynamic design, miraculously appeared just 16 months later as the Soviet AN-72. The SU-15 fighter that shot down the Korean Air Line's Flight 007 two years ago did so with a missile guidance system designed in the U.S. The Soviets do not even attempt to create their own computers anymore: the Kremlin's mainframe RIAD computer...