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...early as next week. (While it is clearly visible in the Southern Hemisphere, even Hawaii is too far north for much of a view.) The star will be the brightest supernova observed since 1604 and the only one visible to the naked eye since 1885. Says University of Chicago Astronomer W. David Arnett: "This is probably the most important thing that's happened in astronomy since 1604. It finally gives us a way of testing ideas about how stars and galaxies work and how abundances of heavy elements are created." The reason for the superlatives being expressed by Arnett...
Ever since Harold Washington became Chicago's first black mayor in 1983, white politicians have spoiled for a rematch. Last week, however, Washington handily defeated former Mayor Jane Byrne in the Democratic primary and established himself as the strong favorite in the April 7 general election...
...investors havealso bought industrial parks, shopping centers, condos and hotels in several states. Nine of the 14 hotels along Waikiki Beach in Hawaii are owned by Japanese landlords. Within a month, Kokusai Jidosha, a real estate company, will close a deal to buy the Hyatt Regency on Maui from Chicago-based VMS Realty for an estimated $319 million...
...also rising over the U.S. construction industry. Kumagai Gumi, a major Japanese construction firm, started $700 million in Hawaiian projects last year, an enormous sum in a state where all nongovernment construction for 1985 totaled $862 million. Nikko Hotels International is building a 425-room luxury hotel in Chicago's Riverfront Park Development and a 525-room hotel near Union Square in San Francisco. Aoki America Construction is building about 1,000 homes in Raleigh, N.C., in a joint venture with a local investor group...
Playwright Dervis places his two main characters in close quarters--an Amtrak dining car on a train from Chicago to San Francisco. Tom (David Frisch) is a Yippie turned corporate executive. Founder of The Advocate, a left-wing newspaper, he is headed to the West Coast in order to sell its current mainstream incarnation. Busily writing out proposals, he is joined rudely by Spence (George Saulnier), a self-proclaimed, 17-year-old "romantic drifter." What Time charts three hours of their relationship, and falls straight into the one-act trap of revealing every silly detail about the pair...