Word: whitneys
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Still, the main function of an industrial robot is not to think but to work, and there are many jobs that a sufficiently muscular and adroit five-year-old could do admirably. At Pratt & Whitney's automated casting factory in Middletown, Conn., ten of Unimation's Unimate 2000s are building ceramic molds for the manufacture of engine turbine blades. The company expects the new molds to help increase production from 50,000 to 90,000 blades a year. No less important, the robot-made molds are so much more uniform that their blades last twice as long...
...Edward Hopper retrospective that opened last week at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art may well be the only incontestably great museum exhibition of work by an American artist in the past decade. The word great is crippled by hype these days, and perhaps it merely clouds what it seeks to praise; yet the qualities it suggests-patient, lucid development; the transcendence of mere talent; richness and density of meaning; and a deep sense of moral dignity in the artist's refraction of his own culture-are so evident in Hopper that no other word will...
...this strictly raised, diffident, beanpole son of a dry-goods storekeeper from Nyack, N.Y. Paris formed his work and gave him the confidence to deal with his specifically American motifs. By no stretch of the imagination could Hopper be called an avant-gardist. Not a canvas in the Whitney's show suggests the influence of cubism, let alone abstract art, although one might be able to detect some remote Fauve echo-perhaps through Albert Marquet, whose work he saw in Paris-in Hopper's fondness for relieving a low-toned background with a sudden distant poke of primary...
...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...