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Carter's press conference ended a hiatus of nearly three months, despite his promise on taking office to hold two such Washington meetings a month. In an auditorium jammed with eager reporters in the Executive Office Building, the President seemed uncommonly wary. He passed up any opening statement and virtually challenged his inquisitors to try to pull any news out of him. With the Florida caucus a few days off, they responded by focusing eleven of their 19 questions on the 1980 presidential campaign and on the allied theme of the nation's economic health...
...capacity crowd of about 300 jammed the Longfellow Hall auditorium to hear Wittig's lecture entitled "One is Not Born a Woman, One Becomes...
...latest gadgets in computer technology--including machines that walk, talk, type and speak foreign languages--were on display this weekend at Boston's Hynes Auditorium...
DIED. Gio Ponti, 87, innovative Italian architect, designer and founding publisher (in 1928) of Domus, a leading Italian architectural journal; of cancer; in Milan. Ponti's varied projects included a villa for the Shah of Iran, a ministry of industrial development for Iraq, and the auditorium of the Time-Life Building in Manhattan. But his best-known structure is Milan's 420-ft. wafer-thin Pirelli building, which towers higher than any other in Italy. A stalwart debunker of design cliches and a champion of functionalism, Ponti created scooper-like dinner forks, glass bookshelves in which the volumes...
Even so, Carter was encouraged by the cheering crowds lined six and seven deep along the road; some people waved signs proclaiming JIMMY, NOT TEDDY. In the Steubenville high school auditorium. Carter shed his coat, mopped his perspiring face and promised that coal production would be tripled by 1995. The windfall-profits tax, he pledged, would amount to $88 billion in revenues, and $75 billion would be spent on coal...