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Since the early days of the Republic, America has been a seafaring nation. The powerful rigging of our Constitutional ideals have always been held aloft by the mast and spars of a concerned, active citizenry. This has been exemplified by the stout framework of a calling to public service, a...
He trains hard. Former light-heavyweight Archie Moore, the old mongoose, who fought his own last pro fight in 1965 at 52, helps inspire him to do it. Foreman straps himself into a harness and pulls a three-wheeled all-terrain vehicle around while a trainer steers. He jogs behind...
The formative early influence on him was the 1907 Cezanne retrospective in Paris. Cezanne's slow chewing at the motif, his persistence, his anxiety, his search for a sculptural grandeur in bodies and landscape (faceted on the surface, dense as limestone below) became, for Braque, a moral absolute. Cezanne's...
Howard recounts the period much as the pragmatic Wrights must have seen it. New applications of materials and industrial technology were increasing rapidly. It was not hard to imagine a bicycle chain driving a propeller or an arrangement of spars and spoke wire strengthening a fragile open structure. From their...
Already the Boeing Co. is shaping the spars and wing ribs in its Everett, Wash., plant for a new Air Force One, a 747-200B that will course the heavens with more range, communication, self-sufficiency and practical elegance than anything else in the sky. The contract let last...