Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robot Coupe R2 ($439). French prototype of the smaller Cuisinart, this is the household version of a restaurant model. Worth every cent for the home cook who entertains on a large scale and demands professional results...
Except, of course, for the dozens of model planes piled on top of a pinball machine in an unused bedroom. Built by a friend, the planes are mostly the vintage airliners Travolta saw from his window as a kid, dreaming that they would some day take him away from the humdrum of Englewood, N.J. There are old Lockheed Constellations, with their twin tails, and British Brittanias. But most of all there are sturdy little DC-3s, the workhorse of four decades. "It was the first true airliner," he says. "It depended just on people who wanted to pick...
...Army Corps of Engineers is restoring the beach. There is talk of building a model of Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens on Watson Island, which is connected to the Beach and the mainland by one of four causeways. Another proposal is to renew South Beach, at a cost of $500 million. The area now attracts winos and beach bums to its sleazy hotels and littered alleys. Despite everything, Miami Beach still has the assets of pleasant climate and huge convention facilities, while businessmen have appealed for $100 million in Government guarantees and outright loans to refurbish and expand...
Ptashne, now on a sabbatical leave of a year in Cambridge, England, has been studying the same mechanism of gene control on a model bacterial virus. Ptashne is studying , at a molecular level, "how various control proteins act to control the expression of genes, "Robert T. Sauer, an assistant in Ptashne's laboratory, said yesterday...
...These kids need a role model as well as companionship," Ryan said. "If a guy is in college--especially Harvard--this will open up the young guys' eyes. They'll learn that one day they'll have to fend for themselves and be concerned about getting an education...