Word: modeler
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...different style. It is Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum, due to open in 1971, and backed by an estimated $75 million left by the late Texas millionaire Kay Kimbell (groceries, oil, insurance). The architect: Philadelphia's Louis I. Kahn, who has now proudly presented his model...
...John Huston pictured it as a pregnant sampan. Now, an Israeli with sound credentials has produced perhaps the most logical rendition of Noah's ark to date. Last week in Jerusalem's Hechal Shlomo (Solomon's Palace), the seat of Israel's Chief Rabbinate, the model went on display-and it looked totally different from earlier versions...
...richest prizes in aviation history: the potential $15 billion market for the air bus, the oversize subsonic transport expected to be the domestic airline workhorse of the '70s. Lockheed Aircraft Corp. sprang to an early lead over McDonnell Douglas by unwrapping enticing plans last summer for a model (the L-1011) with twice the passenger capacity of jets currently flying short and medium runs. But last week, as teams from both rivals flew into Manhattan to make their final sales pitches, McDonnell Douglas seemed to have won the world's first airbus order...
...Paris Air Show. It was four years later when France, Britain and West Germany got together to form a manufacturing consortium to build an air bus. Their ef forts have met with one delay after another, and the British have yet to build even a test model of the RollsRoyce engine that is supposed to power the plane. As matters stand, the Douglas DC-10 should be flying first, probably by late 1970 or early 1971. Airline men expect it to go into regular service...
Stephen Lerner's record of a night in jail, arrested for selling Avatar, is a model of the tone the paper's writers usually miss. However, by over-working the February 5 mass arrest on the six preceding pages--because of editorial lack of coordination--the effect of this fine piece is blunted...