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...finished in 1986. The more ambitious Ellis Island project, which is to include a new museum of immigration, will take until at least 1987 to finish. "Everybody's getting into the act," he gushes. "How about this--we even got $2,000 from the Hell's Angels!" Commission Architect John Burgee says that when the two of them take inspection tours of the enormous Ellis Island entry hall, Iacocca, the immigrants' son, chokes...
...Soviet specialist at Duke University: "Gorbachev is linking himself to the foreign policy of Gromyko." That dependence could weaken as Gorbachev gains greater experience in world affairs, but for the moment Gromyko is viewed not only as the custodian of Moscow's foreign policy but also as its chief architect. One result, says Soviet Expert Dimitri Simes from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington: "Gromyko is going to be a major power broker...
DIED. John Michael Geoffrey Manningham ("Tom") Adams, 53, Prime Minister since 1976 of Barbados (pop. 300,000), one of the most democratically stable of the Caribbean's microstates; of a heart attack; in Bridgetown, Barbados. Adams was an architect of the eight-nation, 2 1/2-year-old Eastern Caribbean Regional Security Pact and played a large consultative role among Caribbean leaders and the Reagan Administration in the U.S. decision to invade neighboring Grenada in October...
...surname is familiar; Boris made it famous with Doctor Zhivago. But his brother Alexander, an architect unknown in the West, also had a talent for the literature of loss. A Vanished Present meticulously re-creates old Moscow during the last two decades of the Russian empire...
...Pasternak apartments were wonderfully well situated, offering panoramas of the city. When he wrote these memoirs the old architect returned to the windows of his youth, mapping out the neighborhood's elegant old houses and gardens, its serene little squares and grandiose churches and monuments as they opened up before him in memory...