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...structure of the building doesn't really lend itself to any of the bureaucratic rigidity of a Holyoke Center or William James, anyway. Tucked away in a relatively untravelled corner of the University, the small, dark old fraternity house has open stairwells, crowded offices that open onto the halls, and connecting passageways between offices. It would be hard to stay aloof from the general traffic, even though the chaos does sometimes make it hard to get much work done, Toland says...
...Harvarditis," and that he promotes a new anti-Harvard scheme almost every week. Who can forget his plan to pave the Yard and open a municipal garage? Or to turn Wadsworth House into a public urinal? And then to shut down the triangle between the Yard and the Science Center to build a track for the town's high school athletes? The list of Al's remedies for Harvard could be as long as Kissinger's thesis, but the fact of the matter is simple: Al loves to hate Harvard...
Many in the audience were not aware of Solti's dilemma. That cannot be said for what happened at La Scala's first night in Washington. The audience filed into the Kennedy Center Opera House to find the pit raised to the level of the stage. "I've never seen that before," said an usher in response to a ticket holder's question. No one had. The pit had been elevated for a rehearsal that afternoon and the hydraulic lift had stuck. While the audience-including Vice President and Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller and Mrs. Giovanni Leone...
...eight-county region of eastern South Dakota that is the center of the livestock business, fully 75% of the herd has already been sold off. Although cattlemen have been losing as much as $150 on every head, cash receipts so far have postponed widespread financial disaster. But the three-year dry spell, which has also affected large areas of Minnesota, Wisconsin, northern Michigan, Nebraska and Iowa (TIME, July 26), is now pushing ranchers to the end of their credit lines. Leland Sivertsen, for example, has been trying, without much luck, to get emergency money from the Farmers Home Administration...
...hell of a revival tent when it comes down," mused Pop Artist Jim Rosenquist, one of the group of artists, museum curators and dealers who assembled to watch the installation. "It was a beautiful birth, all rosy mist and hidden sunlight," enthused the curator of Dartmouth's Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Jan van der Marck, a longtime collaborator of Christo's. "It can't be owned or rented or bought. The artist doesn't get any richer, but you do." But was it, a reporter asked, another Great Wall of China? Smiling, Christo revised...