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...Adams' album from his 1916 trip, with its tiny sodium-browned prints of the Merced River, Half Dome and the scarps of the great valley, one can see the latent images of his work, struggling to become photographs. But as yet they were just vacation snapshots. "They couldn't have meant anything at all to anyone else," he says. "But as I kept doing it over several years, it began to mean more. I was seeing more. Then I got better cameras. Then I began to separate things, to see them more clearly." The first picture he took that...
Food can be grown in the most hostile environments, Coca-Cola's technicians have discovered. In the deserts of Abu Dhabi, for instance, they are raising quantities of plump tomatoes, cucumbers and beans for 10? per Ib. The trick is to grow them under an inflatable plastic dome, which captures the air's available moisture instead of allowing it to evaporate under the searing sun. Also, J. Paul Austin explains, carbon dioxide is pumped in from diesel exhausts, and the gas promotes plant growth...
...Senators try to make up their minds on the SALT II treaty Beneath the crystal chandeliers of the Senate's majestic main Caucus Room, some of the most important congressional activities in the nation's history have taken place. Teapot Dome's sordid realities were revealed there, and Watergate's. Last week the room was once again jammed to capacity as the nine Democrats and six Republicans of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called the first witnesses in the great debate on SALT II. The issue could well become the most critical foreign policy confrontation between...
Chris Mortenson, 31, who develops land in Montana and San Diego, buys one of the auction's truly great pieces, a stained-glass dome originally made for a San Francisco Elks' hall. He pays $90,000 but has no special plans...
Fittingly, the show ends with drawings for the project that filled the last years of his life, the construction of St. Peter's Basilica topped by his triumphant dome. The Morgan has added memorabilia from its own stores, including maps and contemporary books. But it is the drawings that bring close that miraculous moment when Michelangelo's own hand touched paper and gave first reality to a vision...