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...three of these churches are pointing the way toward a vital new expression in religious architecture. In the recent past, religious leaders and architects often conceived of modern churches as "religious plants" to accommodate psychiatric counseling, Sunday-school rooms, party kitchens, banquet halls and diverse country-club facilities. The sanctuary, scheduled for the last phase in fund-raising drives, often never made it. Sometimes services were held in low-ceilinged, linoleum-floored "fellowship halls...
Eliot House junior Greg Olson, a native of Minnetonka, Minn., last night was named as the Harvard hockey captain for the 1982-83 season at the team's banquet at the Harvard Club of Boston...
Declared Brezhnev, toasting his visitors at a formal banquet in the Great Kremlin Palace: "We helped socialist Poland the best we could, and we shall continue helping it." In his reply, Jaruzelski called the Soviet Union "our chief, invaluable economic partner and our closest ally." Both sides blamed Western economic sanctions and propaganda for exacerbating Poland's crisis...
...social symbolism of salt was painfully evident in the medieval equivalents of the Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette. As late as the 18th century, the rank of guests at a banquet was gauged by where they sat in relation to an often elaborate silver saltcellar on the table. The host and "distinguished" guests sat at the head of the table-"above the salt." People who sat below the salt, farthest from the host, were of little consequence...
...Washington, Lawyer Catherine Stevens, 37, wife of the Senate majority whip, Alaska's Ted Stevens, occasionally uses convenient Secret Service agents as baby sitters for her six-month-old daughter. She once breast-fed her in a room beside a presidential banquet. Mr. Reagan signed a menu for the infant. Even board rooms contain more than the usual number of maternity business suits these days. The senior officers' dining room of a New York banking concern, where executives entertain clients at lunch, was recently over whelmed by pregnant women. Said one female executive: "They thought at first it was something...