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...house into the first tanning clinic. After word of the bright idea got around, other entrepreneurs picked up on it, and investor money began to flow. In a typical deal, three lawyers, two doctors and a stockbroker in Massachusetts spotted a newspaper ad placed by Cincinnati's Sunburst International and decided to pool $100,000 to buy a four-clinic franchise. Despite their 300 days of sunshine a year, Californians are particularly hot for store-bought bronze: one Plan-a-Tan clinic in Orange has enrolled 2,100 members since it opened in August...
...rights," and instead accepted the right of all religions to worship as they will. Church Latin, unintelligible and sinister to many, gave way to the vernacular, and even some times to a rather cloying liturgical sweetness: guitar strumming around the altar, folk songs, the priest rigged out in sunburst vest ments that proclaim HERE COMES THE SON. Gone are the Legion of Decency, which prescribed and proscribed movies, and the censorious Index of Forbidden Books...
...create a strong, light blend of mortar and steel mesh called ferrocemento and, by casting major structural pieces at construction sites, managed to mold concrete into soaring, tilted buttresses and high, swooping ceilings. His finest buildings, critics agree, are the vast Exhibition Hall in Turin, Rome's sunburst-domed Palazzetto dello Sport and the oystershell-shaped, ribbed-concrete Pope Paul VI Audience Hall in the Vatican. In the U.S., his works include San Francisco Cathedral and New York City's George Washington Bridge Bus Station. Modest and hardworking, Nervi always considered himself an engineer rather than an architect...
...East Coast and the Gulf states. Moving toward a long cherished aim of getting some domestic U.S. routes to tie in with its foreign network, Pan American World Airways last week signed a definitive agreement to acquire National Airlines for about $350 million. National's name and sunburst logo would disappear, and on domestic runs the combined line would be known as Pan American U.S.A. On foreign routes Pan Am would leave its name unchanged...
SOLAR heating and cooling units could enjoy a sunburst of popularity if Congress approves the program's offer of tax credits to householders and businesses that install them. Among the more prominent firms making solar equipment are Grumman, Revere Copper and Owens-Illinois. The market is huge, according to William Matlock, president of Sunpower Systems. If Congress passes the tax-credit measure, Matlock asserts, the President's 1985 goal of 2.5 million homes heated and cooled by solar energy could be accomplished before...