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...used to be." That may be news to mathematicians, but it seemed to make perfect sense to Gloria Steinem and the 900 or so people gathered at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria hotel last week for the Ms. magazine editor's semicentennial birthday party. The feminist fete featured speeches and songs by such liberati as Mario Thomas, Bella Abzug, Bette Midler, Sally Ride and Shirley MacLaine, who wished the birthday girl "success and happiness in all your future lives." Ride, for her part, recalled that her mother, after watching Sally rocket away on television last June...
...Orleans throws a $350 million fete on the levee...
...fete's official theme is "The World of Rivers: Fresh Water as a Source of Life," and the planners have taken ingenious advantage of the aqueous motif. The main entrance to the 84-acre site is dominated by a sculpture of the sea god Neptune grappling with a tail-flailing native alligator. Flamboyantly presiding over the faux-granite gates are a titanic pair of bare-breasted mermaids, who have stirred a surprising flap in a city sated with live mammary display, and a gigantoid pelican, the state bird (no flap...
Amieno is currently organizing ticket sales for an "appreciation dinner" in honor of Johnson. The fete, which Johnson describes as traditional, should attract more than 400 staffers at $22 each. Police at Area B describe this turnout as half again larger than usual. The size of the guest list, they say, indicates that Johnson was a well-liked commander...
...vacuum at the top of the Soviet pyramid, and the result appears to be paralysis and attendant political jockeying. That insecurity was vividly illustrated at a diplomatic reception in the Kremlin's gothic Hall of St. George following last week's anniversary parade. Politburo members at the fete shunned their foreign guests and instead conferred among themselves behind banquet tables. As a U.S. State Department official put it in Washington, "It's like a court without a king. Who makes decisions...