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...will never be treated as a demigod, as was the charismatic MacArthur, and he is not yet a hero, as was Ike when he returned from Europe in 1945. Yet from the moment when House Doorkeeper William ("Fishbait") Miller swept down the center aisle of the packed chamber last week and announced, in his resonant Southern accent, "Mistah Speak-ah, Gen'ral William C. Westmoreland," the tall, tanned soldier held Congress in thrall...
...every frame available. One of the most sensational flicks: the mad, mad show at the Labyrinth, a five-story pavilion built by the National Film Board of Canada. The feature is prosaically called "The Story of Man," but during the 45-minute film the viewers move from chamber to chamber, eye-witnessing a re-creation of the Greeks' Minotaur myth. At times, members of the audience see the movie as it flickers on a floor screen; at others, they watch it reflected in a mirrored-glass prism. They wind up in a near-psychedelic setting in which films...
Outside San Quentin's "smokehouse"-so named because smoke curls from the gas chamber's chimney when a man is put to death-almost 500 opponents of capital punishment conducted a demonstration. Other groups picketed Governor Ronald Reagan's office and home. At the request of California's Episcopal Bishop C. Kilmer Myers, several churches tolled their bells at the hour of Mitchell's execution "in penitence for our part in this judicial and legalized murder." But C. Julian Bartlett, the dean of Myers' own Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, declined the request...
...years, taxpaying publications have protested the tax-free status of competitors published by educational and other nonprofit organizations. The National Geographic, for example. Or Nation's Business, put out by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. These magazines, operating with what was in effect a subsidy, could offer lower advertising rates. The Geographic argued that its rates were in line with other magazines, but last week the Internal Revenue Service ruled that equity, not rates, was the heart of the matter. After years of pondering, it decided that the tax exemptions should be ended...
...seat music hall named the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion after the center's prime mover-opened 2½ years ago. Last week two handsome new structures were opened: the 2,100-seat Howard Ahmanson Theater for drama and musicals and the 750-seat Mark Taper Forum for chamber music and experimental plays. Together they give Los Angeles a visual fulcrum, not to mention one of the most versatile performing-arts centers in the country...