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...Carl Mydans: A photojournalist's Journey Through War and Peace: Boston University Art Gallery, M-F 10-4, Frieve...
DIED. Ana Mendieta, 35, Cuban-born sculptor who worked with natural forms such as tree stumps and earth mounds; of injuries suffered when she fell from the window of her 34th-floor apartment; in New York City. Her husband of nine months, Sculptor Carl Andre, 50, a controversial, pioneering minimalist whose work often consists of lines of bricks and blocks of wood, was arrested and charged with pushing her out the window during an argument. He was released two days later on $250,000 cash bail, after a judge refused an offer by Andre's lawyer...
...miles a week, lashing out at abortion, pornography and homosexuality. He has been to Harvard to duel with jeering students who spilled over into three auditoriums to hear him, and to Oxford to debate Prime Minister David Lange of New Zealand about nuclear weapons. He dares Scientist Carl Sagan to debate creationism; Sagan has declined the challenge. He has a private session with South Africa's President P.W. Botha and sides publicly with his white government...
Wildmon has backed picketing in many towns to get Playboy and Penthouse magazines off the counters of neighborhood stores. Says Topeka Pastor Carl Bush about the local 7-Eleven outlets: "All we're asking is that they put them behind the counter so kids can't get them. But they won't even do that." Next Monday, Falwell and several thousand marchers are expected to participate in a Labor Day protest at the Dallas headquarters of Southland Corp., which owns 7-Eleven...
...borrowing increase by corporations has been the result of takeover mania," says William Cornish, executive vice president of Chicago's Duff & Phelps, a securities research firm. "Either companies want to add to their holdings or they fear that someone wants to take them over." In evading Raiders Carl Icahn and T. Boone Pickens, Phillips Petroleum took on $4.5 billion in new loans. It now plans to sell about $2 billion worth of assets in the next twelve months to trim its obligations. Chevron borrowed $10 billion to acquire Gulf Oil last year, and it too has been forced...