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...Chamber Orchestra Concert--performs Nielsen's The Little Suite, Op. 1. Wagner's Wesendonck Songs and Mozart's Symphony No. 41, "Jupiter." In MIT's Kresge Auditorium, 84 Mass. Ave. Saturday...
...included so that the President or other key officials could address the nation, providing people with emergency instructions and telling them that at least some units of government were intact and carrying on. Diesel engines were installed to generate electricity in an underground utility plant called the power chamber. Refrigerators were brought in for food storage. A cafeteria became part of the complex, as well as a hospital...
With Cabezon the reader roams Madrid's narrow streets and the back alleys where chamber pots are emptied, enters an apothecary's shop where the contents of every vial are itemized, and loiters in the city squares-always with an ear to the edicts pronounced by the town criers...
...city council currently sits in a small chamber, where Mayor Humphrey presides over the other six members with enthusiastic informality. Her council includes two Armenians, one Hispanic and one African American. Mayor Humphrey sees the new $33 million city hall being constructed as a riposte to those who write off the downtown or who cling to the image of Fresno as an agrarian market town. Despite her claim about the place's Midwestern qualities, she sides with those who believe the city can meet its challenges only if it thinks in terms as cosmopolitan as its new population. The city...
...decade-long recession done much to puncture the pleasure principle. "Part of our laissez-faire attitude," says attorney George Denegre, chairman of the region's Chamber of Commerce and a former King of Carnival, "is that, if times get tough, you go to the Gulf Coast instead of Paris." Ella Brennan, whose family owns several of the city's top restaurants, agrees. "This is a restaurant town," she says, sipping Chablis at the mahogany bar of Commander's Palace. "In New Orleans, if you're about to declare bankruptcy, you go out to dinner the night before...