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...National Aquarium. Once doomed to flounder, it received $400,000 and a new perch at the National...
Marlin Perkins can go to hell. I saw him once at the Boston Aquarium, looking rather pathetically frail in a business suit, pouring water from all seven oceans into a large vat in one of those symbolic gestures of ecological good will. Some newsman asked him if he felt ridiculous working for an insurance company, and Marlin (sans Jim) just smiled and said that, well, he really liked animals more than anything and Mutual of Omaha let him do his work...
...million commercial complex. The 240 acres surrounding the city's formerly decrepit docks now feature a 33-story World Trade Center, a science museum and Harborplace, a stylish arcade of restaurants and emporiums developed by James Rouse, creator of Boston's Quincy Market. A $21.5 million aquarium containing more than 5,000 specimens will open in September. As the city's crumbling row houses have been refurbished, so has the spirit of its citizens. A local version of "I Love New York" appears on bumper stickers and buttons around town: BALTIMORE IS BEST...
...group has escaped the ax. Jane Russell, whose cantilevered brassiere was the sensation of the movie era that also elevated Ronald Reagan, showed up to plead against changes in children's programs that she supports. Luscious Liz Taylor, newly svelte, and some weary turtles from the fifth-rate aquarium kept in the Commerce Department basement were enlisted to stave off the budget knife for their respective interests, the arts and sea life. The National Symphony fiddled through Rimsky-Korsakov last week to mellow members of Congress who must vote on endangered federal funds for the arts. Wherever one dines...
...official spending, since Reagan had hit most of the prime targets in his February message. Some of the new cuts are quite small: for example, $2 million to be saved by closing 38 National Weather Service forecasting stations and $280,000 to be pared by shutting down the National Aquarium in Washington. The biggest saving, $4.2 billion, is a rather empty formality. It results from withdrawing recommendations by Jimmy Carter for new tax credits to states and businesses, credits that had never been enacted and that Reagan was unlikely to accept...