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Going Conglomerate. What can merger-minded businesses still legally do? With this year's decisions, the Supreme Court has ruled out more firmly than ever practically all so-called "horizontal" mergers (between two competing firms), even those that are small-scale in local markets. It has cast new doubt...
For half an hour the formation held tight for the clicking shutters. Then, in an unobserved second, Walker's Starfighter evidently plowed into the right side of the Valkyrie's delta wing, rolled leftward across its top, damaging the B-70's tall, right vertical stabilizer and...
Until 1951 Kahn had built little of importance. Then, while teaching at Yale, he designed that university's new art museum, which with its diagonal staircase slung in a concrete drum and waffle ceilings was hailed as a breakthrough in highly articulated construction. His medical-research laboratories building, finished...
At speeds varying from I/10th to 1 m.p.h., the crawler inched along its steel treads while its 16-man crew co ordinated its activities through an intercom system. The angle of the crawler platform was constantly adjusted so that Saturn would never tilt more than 4 min. of 1°...
Bland & Bleak. Historically, the artists acknowledge a debt to the Russian constructivists, and have words of praise for the industrial approach of such sculptors as Alexander Calder and the late David Smith. They wax hot for Geodetic Architect Buckminster Fuller. Their enthusiasm for painters tends to focus on Barnett Newman...