Word: whitney
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Northeast's new prosperity is found in cities as diverse as tiny North Berwick, Me., home of a new Pratt & Whitney jet-engine-parts plant, and old New Haven, Conn., where G & O Manufacturing Co. is building a new $5 million automotive radiator factory. The most glittering showcase is the string of high-technology companies ringing Boston on the Route 128 beltway led by giants like Polaroid, Raytheon and Itek. Massachusetts' 300 hi-tech firms now employ 150,000 workers...
...coming weeks, but his key aides were doing their best to play down the preconvention controversies. "A good fight or two might be helpful," said Campaign Manager Casey. Indeed, the more significant and surprising news is that the Republicans have by and large stopped sniping at each other. Richard Whitney, 60, a Reagan delegate who is a Colorado dairyman, declares: "We have to have all philosophies in the party to win. We are trying to embrace more people. We don't have much of that 'We won't compromise' attitude any more." Says William Simon, Treasury Secretary under President Gerald...
...nearly 37 years since Marsden Hartley died at the age of 66, and he has long since become a fixture in every history of U.S. art. But owing to a series of internecine disputes, it was only this year that New York City's Whitney Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago succeeded in assembling and documenting a definitive retrospective of his career. The show, after its opening at the Whitney, is now in Chicago, will move on to Fort Worth and finally to the University Art Museum in Berkeley. The accompanying catalogue by Barbara Haskell-the Whitney curator...
...graphite mixed with epoxy resin wrapped around molds like vinyl wallpaper and then baked under pressure in an oven the size of a boxcar. The unpainted fuselage looks like a black plastic drainpipe but it is as tough as titanium; only carbide-tipped drills can cut through it. Pratt & Whitney engines concealed in each side of the plane drive the distinctive 90-in. propeller sticking out of the back of the plane. Because it weighs only 3,850 Ibs., the plane uses one-fifth as much fuel as the current Lear jet, and cruises at 350 m.p.h...
...collection of models for metal outdoor sculpture Nevelson has done in just the past decade At the Wildenstein Gallery is a rich assemblage of wood constructions and collages. But in many ways the centerpiece of the Nevelson celebration is an exhibition called "Atmospheres and Environments" at the Whitney Museum...