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...emotionally charged meeting at W. R. Grace Company's Cambridge plant, more than 20 residents of the area near the chemical manufacturer's principal dumping ground last night demanded to see testing results and expressed concern over plans to build on the site...
...headed by former Treasury Secretary William Simon and Social Philosopher Michael Novak, seems intent on engaging the bishops in a struggle for the soul of the U.S. church on this issue. Two weeks ago, the group, whose 31 members include former Secretary of State Alexander Haig and J. Peter Grace, chairman of W.R. Grace & Co., put out its own letter on economics. Said the 119-page document: "Poverty is not primarily a problem for the state. It is a personal and a community problem which each of us and all our appropriate associations, not only the state, ought to address...
Cynics will call this a B-team Superman. Screenwriter David Odell and Director Jeannot Szwarc concentrate on strong, simple pleasures: Slater's easy grace and uncomplicated beauty; the bravura of (Obi-Wan) O'Toole, shameless and affecting as he just about tears a planet to tatters; and a hilarious wicked-witch turn by the delicious Dunaway. The climactic confrontation, in which man's fate is decided by two women, could elicit thrills of laughter from a Saturday-matinee benefit performance...
Mondale bowed to overwhelming defeat with dignity and grace. After voting near his home in North Oaks, Minn., he traveled to St. Paul for dinner at the Radisson Plaza Hotel with his campaign staff. Said his press secretary, Maxine Isaacs: "It was not a weepy scene at all, just quiet." The Democratic challenger then secluded himself to write the concession speech he delivered to a sparse crowd of 1,000 at the St. Paul Civic Center. Over some shouts of "No!" Mondale, his face at times mournful but his voice steady, said Reagan "is our President, and we honor...
...perfect conceit of a chair, at once lean and voluptuous. It is also reasonably accommodating to human beings: the scrolls are functional flourishes, each a great wooden spring. In this, more than in any other piece, Aalto's devotion to wood is its saving grace, for even lacquered red, the birch makes the chair seem domestic and familiar. A Paimio Loungechair executed in metal would have been gorgeous but mean, dangerous looking...