Word: larger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somewhat like his photos, Adams is larger than life. More than a million copies of his books have gone into print. The latest, Yosemite and the Range of Light (New York Graphic Society; $75), will be published next week. The publication is timed to coincide with "Ansel Adams and the West," a two-month retrospective of 153 of his landscape photographs, organized by the Museum of Modern Art's director of the department of photography, John Szarkowski, and opening at MOMA next week. In workshop sessions over the years, Adams has personally taught at least 4,500 students. Original prints...
...cosmetics regardless of cost. At the fancy Georgette Klinger skin care salons in New York, Chicago, Beverly Hills and Bal Harbour, Fla., sales of treatments and assorted preparations have continued to rise at 20% per year. But this year, reports Owner Klinger, people are economizing by "buying larger quantities-two and three quarts of skin care products rather than...
...company specializes in making larger cars, vans and recreational vehicles. Since the gas crisis started, sales of these relics have, in lacocca's words, "been dropping like a rock." In this year's second quarter, unit sales were down 28% at Chrysler, compared with 27% at Ford and 15% at General Motors. GM and Ford, being bigger, are better able to withstand downturn. Also, they normally manufacture cars only after dealers order them; alone among the Big Three, Chrysler until recently produced autos essentially on speculation and then tried to market them to dealers. Because its dealers...
South Africa has contracted with Fluor Corp. of Irvine, Calif., to build the two additional, much larger plants...
...film the exploding helicopter, the hardest shot of all, the shell of a Viet Nam-vintage Huey chopper was filled with explosives and hoisted aloft on a 220-ft. cable by a larger Chinook. Then it was hung by cables attached to the rock itself. Either the cables were not fastened tightly enough, however, or a rock sliced them apart, because the Huey fell to the ground and exploded before cameras could...