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Workers were busy last week restoring the roof of the Cabildo, New Orleans' 1795 landmark, when a fire apparently ignited by their soldering irons did the opposite. The blaze destroyed the mansard roof and cupola of the Louisiana State Museum, as the building is officially known, and its third floor. Fire fighters went inside while the roof was still burning to rescue portraits and historical artifacts. But historical furniture and some works of art were ruined. The Cabildo, where the Louisiana Purchase was completed in 1803, is regarded as one of America's most treasured landmarks. Fortunately, thanks...
...Hamilton. Before being allowed to publish In Search of J.D. Salinger, the British critic, poet and biographer (Robert Lowell) was put through two rewrites and 1 1/2 years of legal proceedings, culminating in a landmark court ruling that many publishing insiders fear will hamper the future practice of biography. Hamilton's trouble started when he came across more than 100 unpublished letters, stored mainly in the libraries of Princeton and the University of Texas at Austin. The correspondence dates from 1939 to 1961, and provided him with a rich deposit of raw material and, at first, quotations. Salinger apparently...
Citing Harvard's reputation and the women's issues the union has brought to the forefront, the experts said the support staff election here is a landmark one for unions in private higher education and for pink-collar workers...
...really a landmark campaign and one thatclericals will look to as a good way to go," saidDenice Mitchell, who works in the Washington, D.C.office of the Service Employees InternationalUnion (SEIU) District 925, a union establishedspecifically to organize clerical workers. "Anorganization like Harvard gives the issuescredibility by its reputation...
Employees at the Landmark building on Federal Street, where Scudder, Stevens and Clark has one of its Boston offices, told the students they could not contact Robert Stone and suggested that the protesters write to him at his office in New York City. They said Stone does not deal directly with the company's Boston office because he is a director of its New York-based international division...