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Died. Athina Niarchos, 45, fifth wife of Greek Shipping Baron Stavros Niarchos and ex-spouse of his arch rival Aristotle Onassis; of an apparent heart attack; at the Niarchos town house in Paris. Blonde, willowy Tina had already been through two marriages (14 years with Onassis, ten with John Spencer-Churchill, now the Duke of Marlborough) before her sensational 1971 wedding to Niarchos: it was just five months after her divorce from the duke and 17 months after the death of her older sister Eugenie, Niarchos' third wife, from what was officially ruled to be an overdose of sleeping...
Guts and Power. The Rodgers sound comes from 192 speakers in 29 cabinets, four of which are 30-in. woofers (for the deep pedal tones) located high in the flies above the stage. The output of the five manuals (keyboards) comes from 18 cabinets strung invisibly within the proscenium arch behind acoustic gauze. In essence the new organ is a giant electronic sound synthesizer. Yet Fox's performances last week -despite his wearisome look-at-me antics and often histrionic interpretations of Bach, Franck, Dupre and Vierne -demonstrated that Carnegie has a superb instrument capable of Baroque festivity, Romantic...
...centers. One of the most attractive yoga studios is a converted loft organized by Dick Shea, 35, a sometime naval frogman, demolition expert and dancer, and Alan Levy, also 35 and a licensed chiropractor. Patrons come in for an average half-hour twice a week, to bend and stretch, arch their backs, swing their pelvises and breathe deeply, all at their own speed. They find that unlike conventional calisthenics, which tend to be exhausting, yoga renews their energy...
Nonetheless, the architects endowed Harvard with a veritable firmament of bannisters. At the top of the list is Sever Hall, already renowned for another architectural idiosyncrasy--the whispering arch. The glorious wooden bannisters in Sever's concourse are the slickest and longest at Harvard, and any student sophomoric enough to slide down between classes will surely make a bang, even if he or she doesn't crash through the glass doors. Matthews Hall and the Science Center have challenging and steep bannisters that should test the mettle of any slider who looks over the edge to the chasm below...
...Nubia that Fathy rediscovered the technique. Native brick masons could create a clean vault of bricks by first building the back wall of the house higher than the intended roof level. Then they built the arched roof, inclining it slightly against the wall, which provided support until the arch was completed. The roofs would not fall in earthquakes, and the technique was so simple that it could be used anywhere in the world...