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...show. Much of the activity has been on the architectural front. In 12 furious weeks, the old Ed Sullivan Theater -- where Elvis and the Beatles were once presented by the Great Stone Face -- was given a complete overhaul. In his new setup Letterman will have a more cavernous auditorium, a bigger audience (about 400 seats, nearly double the capacity of his old NBC studio) and a whole new neighborhood for his snoopy cameras to roam around in. "You can leave the stage, go down three or four steps, open the door, and you're right on 53rd Street," says Letterman...
...gravely serious man in glasses and a dark suit moves and speaks like the polished trial lawyer he once was. In the dank humidity of an auditorium in the Massachusetts State House, he makes his case insistently, weaving numbers and exposition into a seamless argument. In the future, he says, 60% of the U.S. Navy's shipyard work will involve nuclear-powered vessels. More than half the ships in for repair will be submarines; most of those will be Los Angeles- class attack submarines. "The most experienced shipyard in servicing Los Angeles subs," he declaims, "is the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard...
This is not just a Portsmouth, New Hampshire, defense advocate in action. This is the majority leader of the U.S. Senate, George Mitchell of next-door Maine. In rows of seats in the auditorium behind him are the entire congressional delegations of Maine and New Hampshire, the Governors of both states and 12 busloads of Portsmouth shipyard workers and their families. His real audience, however, is the group of people sitting at the long table across from him. They are members of the presidential commission that is deciding which of the country's military bases to close or cut back...
...triggered an angry backlash from liberal and gay groups. The BGLSA responded with a rally on the steps of Memorial Church denouncing the publication. Editors from the liberal monthly Perspective faced off against their Peninsula counterparts in an Institute of Politics debate before a capacity audience in the Starr Auditorium...
...Harvard has already greatly increased the use of the auditorium in Memorial Hall and hasn't provided the parking required," LaTremouille said...