Word: shells
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...VALUE OF HARVARD STOCKHOLDING IN URANIUM CORPORATIONS COMPANY VALUE Atlantic Ritchfield-ARCO-Anacona $17,465,122 Duke Power 3,323,592 Continental Oil 6,538,679 Kerr McGee 1,645,230 Phillips Petroleum 8,996,703 Exxon 35,442,488 Gulf Oil 7,126,660 Mobil 18,360,622 Shell Oil 1,234,631 SOCAL 20,912,364 Virginia Electric...
...part of its effort to make SALT II politically palatable, the Carter Administration ordered the development of the mobile MX, a ten-warhead successor to the three-warhead Minuteman, which would move around in a giant shell game to foil Soviet targeting. The trouble with MX is its mobile-basing mode. The system is hugely expensive (possibly as much as $100 billion) and terribly destructive of both the natural and social environment in which it would exist. More troublesome still are its military ramifications. If the U.S. goes ahead with a mobile MX, the Soviets may try to disguise...
...trek off to Davos for the European Management Forum, perhaps the world's most high-powered business convention. Last week 450 Europeans, including Heinz Duerr, president of the West German electrical firm AEG-Telefunken, Corp.; Gordon Stevens, a director of Unilever Ltd.; and John Raisman, Deputy Chairman of Shell U.K., Ltd., gathered in Davos to listen to lectures, talk business and do some skiing...
...stand still," he recalls in this extraordinary book of prose and picture recollections. "Texture could be retained despite sudden, violent movement." The book includes a fair number of famous Mili pictures doing just that: his own version of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase; the 37-mm cannon shell stopped at one-millionth of a second as it leaves the nose of a fighter plane; Pitcher Carl Hubbell's arm and hand caught in the act of committing a knuckle ball; Ballerina Nora Kaye transformed into a tornado of multiple images during a pas de bourr...
...woman named Nana Watanabe. There are two or three other women in the studio from Danskin, a manufacturer known for leotards and tights, for whom Watanabe is shooting a couple of catalogues. And here comes another gofer of some kind, a plain-faced, skinny young woman in big tortoise-shell glasses, a grungy raincoat and sneakers. She plops down at the makeup table, opens a big handbag that turns out to be a makeup case and, as the onlooker tells himself that he is an idiot, briskly begins to turn herself into Clotilde...