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DIED. Raymond Massey, 86, gaunt, lanky, Canadian-born stage and screen actor remembered by a generation for his award-winning portrayals of Abraham Lincoln; of complications from pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Later audiences knew him best as the crusty but warmhearted Dr. Gillespie in NBC's Dr. Kildare TV series (with Richard Chamberlain in the title role...
Ford has still more changes coming in its showrooms. Due out this fall is a new Lincoln Mark VII, the replacement for the heavy, clumsy-looking Mark VI. Meanwhile, the company is dropping the Mercury LN7 model, a sporty two-seater car that was introduced in 1981. Says Ford President Donald Petersen: "A car has to fulfill its promise. The LN7 didn't. It was damned disappointing...
Metz was a member of the Mountaineering Club and a resident of Leverett House. Since graduating, he had been a researcher with a Cambridge consulting firm, and was set to start work at MIT's Lincoln Labs this week, in preparation for beginning doctoral study in theoritical physics...
Unlike Richard Nixon's voice-activated taping system, Kennedy's-intended for his personal use in writing his memoirs-was turned on and off by his secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, in response to a signal light that J.F.K. flashed on her desk. He thus could choose what to record. The telephone talks are surprisingly clear, but most of the group discussions produced confused and often incomprehensible transcripts. The microphone was hidden under the Cabinet Room table in many of these meetings...
...dominated by steel fabricated sculpture. Hadzi is a determined texturalist, sculpting pieces which have a natural quality to them, as if they were made of the earth. The bronze doors on St. Paul's Church in Rome are his, and his monumental pieces stand in New York's Lincoln Center, outside Boston City Hall, and starting in 1984, here in Harvard Square...