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...exchange, the IRS requires that the groups-the American Red Cross, the Wilderness Society and private schools, for example-must not devote a "substantial" part of their efforts to political lobbying. With one striking exception. Congress never applied the lobbying restriction to veterans' groups like the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. But now the vets' special situation may change. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has ruled 7 to 3 that Congress violated the Constitution's equal protection guarantees by in effect "subsidizing the lobbying activities of veterans' organizations while...
...them." The declaration last week came not from some pallid revival moviehouse veteran, but from French President François Mitterrand, 65. Speaking at the Elysée Palace in Paris, Movie Fan Mitterrand then intoned: "Mr. Welles, we grant you the honor of Commander of the French Legion of Honor." The director of such film classics as The Magnificent Ambersons and Citizen Kane was less awed by his own craft. "The director is the most overrated artist in the world," boomed Welles, 66. "He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success...
...walls of Anne Gorsuch's spartan Washington office are hung with tasteful, unobtrusive pictures of wildlife, as befits her role as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Her enemies, who are becoming legion, suggest that more suitable decoration would be stark photos of toxic waste dumps, polluted rivers and smog-choked cities...
...care centers have been set up in converted nightclubs (the On Lok Senior Health Services in San Francisco) and in revamped American Legion posts (Post No. 426 in Yucaipa, Calif.), in church basements and converted warehouses. The services they provide are equally diverse. The Burke Rehabilitation Center in White Plains, N.Y., offers two highly specialized programs: one for elderly survivors of stroke, heart attack and other debilitating diseases ($26 a day plus $16 for ambulette service) and a second program for people with moderate to severe senility ($53 a day). Says John Panella, coordinator of both programs: "Many of these...
...name Peter Sellers has undergone something of the same transformation. The late movie comedian was a hero of sorts, forever skirmishing with a legion of enemies of the quizzical stare and the faraway gaze. And now his near-namesake, Peter Sellars '80, has devised a monumental gesture to commercial fantasies in his new American Repertory Theater production of Handel's opera Orlando, at the Loeb Drama Center...