Word: vor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cyclopean Breast. Even when a Spanish painter lived away from Spain, he could keep a peculiarly Iberian fla vor. Such was the case with Ribera, who spent most of his working life in Italy, becoming the most gifted of Caravaggio's followers and the best artist in 17th century Naples. His portrait of Magdalena Ventura, the bearded lady of the Abruzzi, exposing one cyclopean breast as her worn husband looks on, belongs to the same Spanish tradition of dispassionate curiosity about freaks as Velasquez's court dwarfs and idiots...
...beauty of the system is its inherent simplicity. No longer will pilots have to zigzag their way along radio beams from one VOR station to another until they finally reach their destination. Instead, the R-Nav computer will enable them to use the signals from existing stations to set up their own straight-line "phantom" path with waystations that will guide them directly from one airport to another. (Ground controllers will still have to approve the route and monitor the flight to avoid conflict with other planes.) Furthermore, R-Nav will relieve bottlenecks near airports. Aircraft will be able...