Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Richard King Mellon, 70, Mellon fortune seigneur (see BUSINESS...
...CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY Philip Handler, Sc.D., president of the National Academy of Sciences. Arthur Miller, L.H.D., playwright...
Arched Petals. Piene's Manned Helium sculpture, staged in Point State Park, was indeed something. The materials were ten 250-ft. lengths of clear polyethylene tube, 40 helium tanks, three searchlights, eight floodlights, dozens of helpers, and a 17-year-old student from the Carnegie-Mellon University, Susan Peters. The tubes were guyed to earth at each end and inflated; they rose in arches. The intrepid Miss Peters ("She doesn't weigh much-say 92 pounds") put on a parachute harness, and Piene hooked her to the center ends of his plastic chrysanthemum, and let go the ropes...
...sense of discovery and pride in scientific investigation, which resulted in a wealth of tools and inventions and, in due course, the Industrial Revolution. On the other, there was its almost mystic appreciation of nature. A rare exhibition of Wright's paintings, drawn entirely from the Paul Mellon Collection and currently on display at Washington's National Gallery, shows that Wright was marvelously attuned to both impulses...
...that compared with 1969, job offers to men are down 16% at the bachelor's degree level and 26% lower for M.A.s. Dr. James Souther, placement director at the University of Washington, says that the job market is tighter than he has seen it since 1953. At Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, recruiting is off 10%. At Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., interviews by Standard Oil of California, Boeing, Uniroyal, Gulf Oil, Carborundum and Volkswagen of America were canceled. For the first time in 30 years, Du Pont is not interviewing Princeton seniors...