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...create a commotion over the Hughes aides' work permits, hoping that somehow the subpoena could be served in the confusion. A raiding party of 20 Bahamians-police, immigration agents and others-appeared at the Hughes fastness at 2 a.m. last Tuesday; they got no farther than Hughes' foyer. Stymied, the Bahamians issued an ultimatum that four of Hughes' entourage must leave the country within two hours because they lacked proper work permits...
Richie Havens, in concert, with Jamie Brockett, Roberts Center, B.C. 8, Feb. 26. Tickets $3.50 at booth in McElroy Foyer...
...mostly Americans) eager to get to China, the box office is the top two floors of Ottawa's modern twelve-story Juliana apartments, where the 20-man Chinese embassy staff lives and works. Most visa-seeking visitors are lucky if they can get past the intercom in the foyer, where they are told by a polite English-speaking voice to write directly to the Chinese foreign ministry in Peking. Among those who have approached the Juliana embassy for those coveted tickets to China: Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern, Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern, Adlai Stevenson III and Teddy Kennedy...
...There is even the look of an inflated Greek temple, 20 times life size. Above all, the Center has an absolute lack of plasticity in space and detail. The halls and theaters are simply boxes-large boxes, to be sure, but they could hardly be more inert. The grand foyer, with its six-story mirrors, marble, chandeliers and inevitable red carpet, strives to be timeless but achieves only the crushing placelessness of an international air terminal. At the same time, Stone's attempted monumentality is often undone-even on its own terms-by a sense of kitsch. Thus...
...fortress wraps itself around a pool; it has walkways and plants growing all around; there is a basketball half court, badminton court, an archery range and, inside, a pool table in a sunken rec room and a den that looks like a cross between a motel lobby and the foyer of a Sunset Boulevard record company. The walls are plastered with platinum records (each signifying $2,000,000 in sales) and various other trophies the boys have picked up. For furniture, there is a bar, a stereo with big speakers and leatherette couches...