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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Defeat has a bitter taste for Vertol management as well. Says Vice President Charles Ellis, who headed the UTTAS project: "I haven't worked on anything else for six years. That's a lot of my life to invest in a program and be unsuccessful." However, he is gamely trying to forget and concentrate on winning the next big project: the $700 million Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System (LAMPS) helicopter contract to be awarded by the Navy this spring. Vertol managers claim they have solved the vibration problems that plagued their UTTAS models, and so have high hopes...
...fold. It is beaux-arts drawing applied with a kind of gentle irony to the ma trix of abstract-expressionist style. Dine's older paintings of robes in the '60s were done with acrylic and house paint; they had the "industrial" look common to a lot of Pop art - clean, flat, unresonant. But, says he, "the robes glow now," thanks to the traditional oil paint...
...other acts. Paying tribute to black entertainers who paved the way for her, she dresses up as Josephine Baker, Ethel Waters, Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith. Ross, 32, identifies especially with Holiday, whose life she portrayed in her first movie, Lady Sings the Blues. Says Diana: "Billie needed a lot of love. She had so much luxury and loveliness around her, but was still so very much alone in a crowd...
...goalie wore teeth. But Emile Francis, coach of the losing St. Louis Blues, declined to blame the mask. "If a player is close enough to see it, he's not looking at it," said Francis dryly. "He's looking for a hole in the net." Fangs a lot...
This, in fact, seemed to have been the case in many white households. Admitted Beti Gunter, the wife of a lawyer in Little Rock, Ark.: "Something inside me tried to say that slavery wasn't that bad, but now I know that it really was a lot worse." Said Barbara Ash, a vice president of Hart, Schaffner & Marx in Chicago: "I just hurt for them. Guilt is not a good word to describe my feelings?I felt agony." Said Lydia Levin, a law student at the University of California at Los Angeles: "I don't think I ever sat down...