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The Soviets accuse the U.S. of insensitivity to their legitimate security interests, and they claim that those interests are endangered by the new mood of militancy in the U.S. "Your desire to control the oil-producing areas of the world is driving a frantic effort to enlist other countries in...
The save-the-palaces movement burgeoned too late to spare some of the great houses, notably Manhattan's Roxy, the Orpheums of Seattle and Portland, Ore., and the Paradise (lost) of Chicago. Many that still exist have become porn houses. Others were stripped and chopped into two, three or...
Brennan's task will be made more difficult by the growing recession. Last month retail sales were down a sharp 1%. With its emphasis on easily deferrable big-ticket purchases like appliances, Sears could be hurt harder than most. All of Edward Brennan's company breeding and 24...
DIED. Virginia Murray Bacon, 88, widow of New York Republican Congressman Robert Low Bacon (who died in 1938), ebullient champion of the arts and historical preservation in the nation's capital, and grande dame of the city's G.O.P. elite for half a century; in Washington, D.C.
When Alice Roosevelt Longworth died last week at 96, Washington remembered her as a woman of great charm and elegance. It remembered her glittering marriage to House Speaker Nicholas Longworth and her years as the capital's reigning grande dame. But most of all it remembered the malicious wit...