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Evidently unhappy about the criticism of his refusal to meet with Russian Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn last July, President Ford recently moved to make amends. In an enthusiastic telegram to the Freedom Foundation of Valley Forge, Pa., Ford said he was "delighted" at the award of the foundation's American Friendship Medal to the Nobel prizewinner. The President's pleasure might well have been diminished had he anticipated Solzhenitsyn's bitter attack on U.S. foreign policy, aired last week on William F. Buckley's public television show Firing Line...
...portraitist, Mielziner studied painting as a youth, then went onstage to get the actor's point of view. He prepared hundreds of sketches until he achieved the design and the lighting that would "make people grasp a situation as quickly as possible." A five-time Tony Award winner and a one-time Academy Award winner (color art direction for the movie Picnic), he always aimed, as a set designer, to be the director's "extra...
...bright side of the Wick affair was the announcement of Marla Miller '76, a Rotary Fellowship winner, that she would not accept the award if Wick became the Rotary head. Miller, who has no alternative funding and is planning to study in England, invited other Harvard Rotary winners to join her in her protest, but apparently none contacted her. Her action stands in contrast to the morally vacuous behavior of the Rotary leadership...
Tumin declined to say yesterday whether he will accept the award...
...dresses some of the world's most fashionable women,* Halston's soft, tactile approach to sportswear has also won him immense success as a ready-to-wear magnate; his off-the-peg clothes sell for between $25 and $1,000. A three-time winner of the Coty Award (fashion's Oscar), Halston believes "a designer should analyze the needs of the public and draw for all shapes and sizes. Our age group is anywhere from 18 to 80. It includes a businesswoman and a woman of leisure. It's a mother, a daughter, Ms. America...