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Megamillionaires with a willed fortune are often ambivalent about it. Inheriting Dow Jones stock now worth $150 million, recalls Christopher Bancroft, was like winning an elephant in a raffle: "I didn't know what the hell to do with it." Laura, a fourth-generation Rockefeller whose maiden name is hidden behind two marriages, remembers her family's vast compound as a "verdant cage." A psychiatric social worker, she happily gives away her inherited income to favorite causes like the Children's Defense Fund...
...Laura I. Gerald '90, one of the seminar leaders, cited "a language barrier" as a primary factor in the failure of government AIDS information to reach Blacks. "[AIDS pamphlets] don't come out in the vernacular. But those are the kinds of words we need if we want people to understand," she said...
...Cairo: Dean Fischer, David S. Jackson Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Bangkok: Ross H. Munro Beijing: Sandra Burton Hong Kong: William Stewart, Jay Branegan Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Central America: John Moody Mexico City: John Borrell Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...
...include a haunting, African-influenced chant. Director Lloyd Richards needs to tinker with the ending, a sort of exorcism in which a sudden shift from farce to horror does not quite work. But already the musical instrument of the title is the most potent symbol in American drama since Laura Wingfield's glass menagerie...
...last of his 14 Cabinet appointments, but then his choice drew much praise. His selection: retired Admiral James Watkins, 60, an expert on nuclear power, former Chief of Naval Operations and once a long-shot prospect to become father-in-law of Britain's Prince Charles (Watkins' daughter Laura Jo had a romance with the Prince before marrying an American actor). Watkins' last Government job was as head of Ronald Reagan's AIDS commission; he showed a gift for drawing agreement from people with very diverse views by coaxing a surprisingly compassionate report out of a sometimes quarrelsome group. Watkins...