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...mind-boggling array of expensive protective instruments is now on the market, ranging from $375 bulletproof vests for executives conducting shareholders meetings to $16,000 electronic tracking systems that help trace a kidnap victim. A particularly nervous tycoon could buy from CCS Communication Control Inc. for $200,000 the security-studded 1979 silver-gray Cadillac that was once ordered by the Shah of Iran but never delivered. For $1,500 more, his chauffeur could take a four-day evasive-driving course in Summit Point, W. Va., that teaches high-speed handling and bootleg turns to escape terrorist blockades. The head...
...workdays are lost each year be cause of back problems. In Sweden, where sick-pay benefits are liberal, backaches are the single largest cause of worker absenteeism. Americans, in their often fu tile quest for relief, now spend $5 billion a year for tests and treatment by a dizzying array of back specialists, including orthopedists, osteopaths, physical therapists and chiropractors, to say nothing of self-styled gurus who promote every man ner of cure. Billions more are paid out in disability claims, lawsuit awards and other settlements resulting from back injuries...
During Goyette's more than 20 years in the planning office, the University has developed extensive land holdings and has added an array of buildings, including the Science Center, Holyoke Center and a variety of residential and athletic facilities...
Sprinkled through Easyriders are advertisements for a dazzling array of products tied to the motorcycle lifestyle. There are "macho suspenders in Harley colors," and a three-record set of "War Songs of the Third Reich." You can order a handcrafted, bone china beer mug in the shape of a human skull, skull, or a part of your motorcycle plated in gold, or an eight-track tape that will teach you how to "make your dog a real man-stopper...
This does not always come off. One detects (especially in parts of the gold-painted environment, The Royal Tides) a note of theatrical pomp, a weakness for the merely spectacular. But Nevelson's black rooms and her array of white sculpture entitled Dawn 's Wedding-the negative reversal of Moon Garden, every shape blanched and fully visible under the chalky candor of the white paint so that it seems ethereal and removed rather than dense and beckoning-afford an extremely satisfying sculptural experience. They are full of mystery, rigor and the calmly detailed expressive power that...