Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...force and idea man behind the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, a turning point in the city's development. Not only did the $100 million bash turn a profit of $500,000, but it endowed the city with many permanent buildings, including the Cultural Center and the Space Needle, a spidery, 607-ft. structure that is Seattle's Eiffel Tower...
...addressed, above all, to mystery. Unified by the black paint, the thousands of objects that make up Mrs. N's Palace shed their identity. They do not become sinister -this is no mere haunted house-but they do become less knowable, withdrawn from recognition within the austere space of Nevelson's fiction...
...currently is pushing up store operating costs -wages, electric bills, transportation charges-much faster than food prices. Other chains have raised profits nonetheless, largely because they started much earlier than A.&P. in replacing dim, crowded stores with modern markets that get more volume per sq. ft. of selling space and have many more branches in the prospering Sunbelt. A. & P.'s markets are still heavily concentrated in the economically depressed mid-Atlantic states. Says Analyst Fred Kopf of Reynolds Securities: "It would have been easier for A. & P. if the world had stood still...
...eyeball with tiny insects like the Feathery Midge (in life about 2 mm. long) and allows us to make contact with beautiful, intriguing, minute parts of plants and minerals. He has combined scientific knowledge and photographic talent. With this book, we now have an Ansel Adams of inner space...
...committee has also protested similar tactics in the In Search of... and The Outer Space Connection programs aired by NBC. Though also broadcast as entertainment, one 'show clearly supported the idea that the huge drawings on Peru's Nazca plains could have been made only with the help of ancient visitors from outer space. It stressed that no one has figured out how else the figures could have been created, though German Mathematician Maria Reiche has demonstrated that the Nazcans would have needed no outside help. Still another program showed pictures made by a process called Kirlian photography...