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DIED. Angelo Donghia, 50, American interior decorator whose contemporary design innovations, including severe upholstery on plumply overstuffed furniture, shiny lacquered walls and unusual combinations of fabric textures and patterns, became widely popular through shrewd marketing arrangements for products carrying his name; of pneumonia; in New York City. The first U.S. home-furnishings designer to endorse a line of sheets, in 1973, Donghia went on to promote his own decorating fabrics, furniture, china and glassware. His Manhattan office, which he called "gray flannel heaven" for its trademark men's suiting wall covering, welcomed such famous clients as Diana Ross, Ralph Lauren...
...interior of the spacious, hazy gym will be highlighted by Selvage's additions of sports equipment, huge screens, and white paper slashes lining the walls. Mallardi explains that the transparent screens and other decorations will imbue the room with an "ephemeral feeling...
...finished until 1988, but the Soviets' new Washington embassy compound was virtually complete by 1979. Explains a U.S. official: "American contractors have an incentive to finish as soon as possible. There are no similar incentives in the Soviet Union." The U.S. refuses to allow the Soviets to complete the interior of their new building and move from their old ornate brick embassy four blocks from the White House until Soviet crews finish the American facility in Moscow...
...looking into allegations of lax security at meetings of the General Dynamics board of directors, where top-secret subjects are supposedly discussed without adequate safeguards against leaks. Questions have been raised about how Veliotis, after leaving the company and losing his security clearance, obtained classified photographs of the interior of the newest Trident. Veliotis has turned over the sensitive pictures, which Soviet engineers could use to gauge the Trident's capabilities, to the Justice Department...
Underneath that overweight, stuttering, bumbling, scuffed-shoe exterior there may be someone with intelligence, wit, competence and true competitive ability. But who knows unless the exterior reveals the interior? And so an industry has come along dedicated to making men and women look good on the job so they can perhaps rise to top management posts in their companies...