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Basing his novel theory on a year-long scientific analysis of mysterious astronomical patterns in several van Gogh paintings. Professor of Astronomy Charles A. Whitney concluded that Van Gogh produced an almost exact reproduction of the night sky in his own time...
...back to George Washington; State Department records to Revolutionary War naval prize cases; census records to the first one, in 1790. There are Mathew Brady's photographs, and Walker Evans' too, and confiscated photo albums once kept by Eva Braun. Patents go back further than Eli Whitney's cotton gin (1794), which was so simple to copy that Whitney made no money from it. Abraham Lincoln got a patent for a device to float boats over shoals (never used), and Samuel Clemens, who wrote real books as Mark Twain, got a patent for a stickum-coated scrapbook...
...cancer; in New York City. Neel starved during the Depression but eventually partook of the New Deal's WPA assistance. Long submerged in the tide of abstract expressionism, she was rediscovered in the late 1960s, and following a 1974 retrospective at New York City's Whitney Museum had numerous one-woman and group shows...
...John Opel, whose company last week announced a 21.7% increase in profits for the third quarter: "1984 was a very good year for us, and we have a view of 1985 that essentially says more of the same." Added Harry Gray, chairman of United Technologies, whose subsidiaries (including Pratt & Whitney and Sikorsky) have seen their profits boosted by high Pentagon spending: "The outlook for '85 is excellent...
...provocative ads, and eight others like them, are the first volleys in a new war against political action committees (PACs). Leading the PAC attack: Philip Stern, a Washington philanthropist and liberal Democratic activist who last September joined forces with New York Republican Whitney North Seymour Jr., a former U.S. Attorney, to form the nonpartisan "citizens against PACS." The group's goal is to pressure Congress into eliminating the corporate, labor union and special-interest PACs that make what Stern calls "ax-to-grind" contributions to candidates. Says he: "We want to make it uncomfortable for Congress to continue accepting...