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FRANK STELLA IS the Daniel Boone of the art world. While the hardy backwoods pioneer opened new lands to satisfy his hunger for "elbow room," Stella has spent his 20-year painting career trying to create "working space," his term for the expansive three-dimensional illusions painted by the post-Renaissance master Caravaggio...
Whether on the ground or in the air, the high-speed collision of two aircraft is every pilot's worst fear. Yet each day in the U.S. the worry grows. "Near midairs," the safety experts' term for when two planes come dangerously close to each other in the air, are increasing at an alarming rate: 311 in 1982, 475 in 1983, 589 in 1984, 777 in 1985, at least 812 in 1986. Commercial airliners were involved in 35% of the 1986 incidents. What the air-travel industry too gently calls "runway incursions" are also on the rise...
Safety experts advocate such short-term and relatively inexpensive improvements as clearer runway markings, tighter control over carry-on luggage that can hurl about a cabin in a crash landing, and greater fire resistance in airline cabin fabrics...
...Michael S. Dukakis enters the second day of his third term as Massachusetts' governor, political pundits and pollsters are scrambling to answer the Big Question: will the Duke run for higher office...
...funds for the plaque, which sponsors said will have gold-colored plates, will come from the operations budget, which has $25,921 remaining for the year. Each undergraduate pays a $10 council fee on his term bill...