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Hoffman, who bought the ten-acre tract for $100,000, has divided 4.3 acres into 27 million minuscule lots, each a mere 1 sq. in., and is selling them (along with deeds suitable for framing, of course) for $8 apiece. He calls his opponents "hypocritical." Says the Chicken Ranch's new proprietor: "They could have dealt with the place when it was a whorehouse. Now I'm immoral for building a museum...
What has the Met got for this money? In round figures, 60,000 sq. ft. of new exhibition space, bigger than either the Guggenheim (38,000 sq. ft.) or the Whitney (23,000 sq. ft.). It will be a long time before the Met's contemporary wing starts bursting at the seams like its older cousins. Its | architects, Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates, are masters of institutional tone, with a steely disdain for the outre and the overdeclarative; nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art, as one can see in their handling of such...
...hold the upper hand, if only psychologically. The Iraqis have been put on the defensive by the recent campaign, for which both sides have amassed at least 200,000 soldiers. Since beginning its offensive in December, the Iranian army has made small gains south of Fish Lake, a 120- sq.-mi. area flooded by the Iraqis as a defensive barrier. Iran has also made incremental progress southeast of Basra in the marshy terrain along the Shatt al Arab, a strategic waterway that affords access to the Persian Gulf. The new toehold has enabled the Iranians to bombard Basra from closer...
...agreed that Macao, the tiny Portuguese colony and gambler's Mecca at the mouth of the Pearl River, would eventually return to Chinese rule. A major hitch, however, has been the & inability of the two sides to fix a date for Portugal to relinquish its administration of the 6-sq.-mi. enclave...
...leak jet fuel. Early flight tests revealed problems caused by loading cruise missile launchers and antiradiation pods onto the original airframe design. In gaining an extra 41 tons -- nearly a 25% increase -- without additional wing surface, the B-1B had acquired an extraordinary "wing loading" of 245 lbs. per sq. ft., twice the weight carried by the commercial Boeing 747. The added weight means the plane is prone to stall when the pilot attempts complex escape maneuvers. New stall- inhibitor and stabilization mechanisms will ease the problem but will make it more difficult for the B-1B to execute maneuvers...