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...Levi's Plaza, Levi Strauss & Co., corporate headquarters, San Francisco, Calif. Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum Inc., architects. Located on the fringe of the city, this office complex frames a pleasant garden and proves that corporate prestige does not depend on scraping...
...mind during the last Harvard-Dartmouth game in Hanover. I was sitting in the stands, and it was raining so hard that my raincoat--one of those leak-proof, rubberized specials--had soaked through. My newish jeans were plastered to my legs, which by this time must have been Levi blue from the dye that was forming a nice pool at my feet. Ah yes, my feet. My feet, shriveled to nothingness, were floating inside my socks, which were floating inside my sneakers, which had water streaming out of the eyelets, diluting the Levi blue pool. The man who said...
...perhaps the coolest description of the making of a hit single ever. Four Tops leader Levi Stubbs once described the genesis of "Baby I Need Your Loving" this way: "We'd sit around and talk and maybe sing a line at a time and try to get a feeling for the tune and send out and get a sandwich or a cold beer and wait an hour till the sandwich settled and then we'd take another shot at it. Lucky for us, we came up with a pretty good mood cut it and came up with a smash...
...Myung Moon, who seems to be guided by the Gospel according to Guinness, as the "largest mass marriage in history." A total of 4,150 members of the Unification Church were united in 2,075 marriages performed at Madison Square Garden. Moon, something of a spiritual Dolly Levi to his flock, personally matched up the couples-many had met for the first time only days before-and some, of different nationalities, were able to converse with their new mates only through interpreters. The newlyweds will now return home until Moon gives the go-ahead for them to move in with...
Shultz's one major conflict at Chicago came when he banned the use of loudspeakers at a rally against the Viet Nam War. When Edward Levi, the university's president, overruled him, Shultz resigned. His friends on the faculty, including conservative Economist Milton Friedman, pressured him to reconsider. Levi ranks among Shultz's admirers. Says he: "George knows how to deal with people. He is an inspirational individual...