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Such events nourish him. He has just finished attending the Cherry Festival in Traverse City, Mich. That goes on the list with the Holland Tulip Festival and the Virginia Apple Blossom Festival. One of his happiest afternoons in his first year at the White House was taking the Soviet cosmonauts to the Alexandria, Va., firemen's picnic...
French furniture design is dominated by Marc Held, 44, who claims the all but unique accomplishment of having created distinctive products for both the top and bottom of the line. In 1970 Knoll International, the firm that introduced the classic Saarinen "tulip" chair among many other designs, offered the new Held chair, a combination swivel-rocking chair made of leather-covered fiber glass with a rounded base...
...both." After serving alongside Walt Disney in the World War I Red Cross Ambulance Corps, Kroc played piano in Chicago bars and restaurants and sold paper cups. His keyboard technique never earned him much of a living, but he sold enough cups to become Midwest sales manager for Lily-Tulip. In 1937 he quit, and for $ 10,000 bought exclusive sales rights to the Prince Castle Multimixer, a machine that could mix six milkshakes at once...
...ideas about art. Picasso's 50-ft. sculpture in the Civic Center Plaza, some say, looks like a baboon. As for the 53-ft. work by Alexander Calder to be placed near by, it appears, from the model, to resemble a butterfly with long feelers or a tulip bending its petals to earth. "Not at all," retorted the 74-year-old artist. "It's more like a flamingo." Even so, Calder has had to redesign part of the 10-ton carbon-steel structure. "This is supposed to be a stabile," he explained, "but with Chicago's wind...
...when the tulip blood eroded...