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...Objects Lab, a Greek vessel lies on its side on a sponge cushion. Dipping a Q-tip in a solution an assistant removes old paint used to cover earlier retouching, exposing the crack-mending in the process. The slow and tricky work is necessitated solely by changed aesthetic tastes. Formerly, conservators could use new paint to "restore" a lost section of a picture without invoking the wrath of purists. Now, Beale said, the emphasis on presenting just the original, even when that causes gaps in a pattern...
...exhibit. Transporting these objects often raises as many problems as, say, refinishing or mending them, he added. Special cases are designed to protect against bumps and the atmosphere. Yet the preventives, like their medical counterparts, often have unexpected side effects. Black rubber, which is often used to cushion picture frames from handling shocks in transit, tarnishes the metal. An experiment with a copper dish and this "dark enemy" goes on under a glass cover in a corner. And the lauded modern plastic adhesives, though stabler than old synthetics, tend to deteriorate in Ultra-Violet light. Bronze or some other chemically...
PRICES of oil and gas must be set free to find their own levels in the market. Liberals on the board would phase out controls over three or four years to cushion the blow to consumers; conservatives favor more rapid decontrol. But all agree that the Federal Government must eventually remove itself from energy pricing altogether, eliminating the red tape that has engulfed the system...
...them sounded upbeat. Said Donald Percy, a vice president at the University of Wisconsin: "Our mood now is one of quiet expectancy." Still, as Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist pointed out, Carter "doesn't have a great reservoir of partisan feeling to draw on as a kind of cushion. He's going to have to produce." Added Theologian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago: "A lot of married couples forgo the honeymoon cruise and take up housekeeping right away. He's going to have to do that...
Until they find out what Carter will do to cushion wide fluctuations in the prices for their crops, some farmers are holding off on purchases of expensive equipment. Others anticipate a consumer rebellion over higher prices and are already explaining on TV that a loaf of bread contains only 3? to 4? worth of wheat. Still, there is an underlying confidence, which is demonstrated by the seller's market for prime agricultural land. In a year the price has risen by 28%, to $2,000 an acre, outside Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and by 45%, to $4,000 an acre...