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This purchase is part of USA's efforts to "start a Nickelodeon circuit nationwide to run art-speciality films," said Loretta Cuberley, USA's vice-president for publicity. In the past two years, USA has also acquired the Janus Theater in Cambridge and the Nickelodeon in Boston and constructed the Copley Place Cinema...
...those elite centers of varsity iron-pumping by no means dominate the Harvard 'health club' scene. House gyms and graduate school rooms, including a small free-weight center for Law School students, reduce the strain on the jewels of Harvard's weight-room circuit, the varsity-oriented ITT and the social...
Since last year, however, the ascetically inclined scientist has had to put away his muddy boots and pursue a very different kind of fieldwork in big-city hotels and on the lecture circuit. The reason: in collaboration with the Nature Conservancy International, he is attempting to raise $11.8 million for an unprecedented ecological experiment. Janzen plans to use the money to buy 158 sq. mi. of Costa Rican terrain surrounding Santa Rosa and re-create a virtually extinct ecosystem known as tropical dry forest. He has already named the proposed refuge Guanacaste National Park...
North, it became clearer last week, was not only the point man in a clandestine effort to support the contras; he was also a hot speaker on the private contra fund-raising circuit. The National Security Council aide began briefing private groups on Central America in 1983 at weekly sessions organized by the White House Office of Public Liaison, and he was soon in demand among conservative groups nationwide. His remarks in Nashville, quoted from a tape obtained by the Washington Post, were to the Council for National Policy, a group of about 500 influential conservatives including Colorado Brewer Joseph...
...White House staffers believe North would have involved himself in specific political campaigns. His expenses on the speech circuit were usually paid for by his private hosts. Members of these organizations say North would leave before the fund-raising pitches began. The White House aide seemed careful to keep within legal limits. "I can't tell you what you should do" was how he frequently prefaced his remarks. "You know what's out there, what the contras face...