Word: displays
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Diberadinis, who handles all matters of environmental health and safety for Harvard, said that he has been conducting air samples at the museum for the last several months. He said he found no hazardous levels of asbestos but nevertheless recommended renovating the display cabinets "as an added precaution...
...display cabinets are being covered with a special paint that is designed to guard against effects of asbestos for about five years...
...certainly aware of my own office having much [asbestos] in it," said Kurt P. Wise, a researcher and teaching fellow, Wise explained that because only a small percentage of cabinets that were on display to the public contained asbestos, it was "only the researchers who end up getting affected" by the rest of the cabinets...
...unusual display was only one highlight of a lightning diplomatic foray by Nakasone that was intended to burnish Japan's political image, not only in Korea but also in Washington. During his 24-hour visit to Seoul, the outgoing Japanese politician who became Prime Minister seven weeks ago was laying some shrewd groundwork for his meeting with President Ronald Reagan this week. At a time of fraying U.S.-Japanese relations on such issues as regional defense spending and international trade, Nakasone was hoping to demonstrate that Japan intended to be a strong and stabilizing U.S. ally in Asia. Said...
...Manhattan. Sculpture, combines and a 100-ft.-long photomontage based on a recent trip to China are being shown in three spaces run by Leo Castelli and Ileana Sonnabend downtown in SoHo; uptown, at the Museum of Modern Art, a set of collages from the China journey is on display. They are all pendants to a larger project, the Rauschenberg Overseas Cultural Interchange (ROCI), whereby he intends to travel and exhibit a changing nucleus of works in some 20 countries, while working on new projects with local artists and craftsmen. The initial incarnation of the ROCI show is planned...