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AMERICAN PAINTINGS FROM THE MANOOGIAN COLLECTION, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Never publicly exhibited before, this notable collection of 19th century works ranges from Hudson River landscapes to frontier genre scenes, from Sargents to Raphaelle Peales. Through Sept...
AMERICAN PAINTINGS FROM THE MANOOGIAN COLLECTION, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Never publicly exhibited before, this notable collection of 19th century works ranges from Hudson River landscapes to frontier genre scenes, from Sargent to Raphaelle Peale. June 4 through Sept...
...time. On Jan. 13 the 27-year-old Italian interior designer descended into a cave near Carlsbad, N. Mex., where she was to live for more than four months as part of an experiment aimed at examining how the stresses of long-term isolation could affect space $ travel. Pioneer Frontier Explorations, an Italian research foundation, had selected Follini, one of 20 volunteers for the assignment, because she was judged to have inner strength and stamina. For 131 days she dwelled alone in a 20-ft. by 12-ft. Plexiglas module sealed 30 ft. under the surface, without sunlight...
...cutthroat competition that produced those fares is fading fast. After a severe shake-out in which some 214 airlines disappeared or merged into hardier carriers, the industry is concentrated in fewer hands than ever before. Gone from the runways are such established carriers as National, Western, Pacific Southwest, Frontier, Ozark and Republic. Vanished too is a fleet of energetic upstarts, including People Express, Muse Air, New York Air, Pride Air, Jet America and Empire...
...great in beauty, in majesty and in sheer size. If laid atop the lower 48 states, it would stretch from Florida to California. The territory that was once called Seward's Folly is rich almost beyond comprehension in oil, coal, timber and fish. Alaska is truly America's last frontier, a place of wonder that is virtually unspoiled and a priceless treasure that is largely unspent...