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...wall of Levine's apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side is a framed quotation from Thomas Mann's novella The Tables of the Law, given to the conductor by his longtime live-in companion, Sue Thomson. It reads, in part: "Mighty and long labor lay ahead, labor which would have to be achieved through anger and patience before the uncouth hordes could be formed into a people who would be more than the usual community to whom the ordinary was comfortable ..." Too often, there is an air of comfortable ordinariness about the Met, such as casting...
...rules require the city to treat all qualifying live-in partners as if they were spouses. For instance, they will have the same visitation rights at local jails and hospitals, and city workers would get a day off to attend a mate's funeral. But what backers were most eager to win was low-cost ($50 a month) health benefits, which city employees will pay for at the same rate as they do for a husband or wife...
Several commuters said they have had trouble acquiring many of the privileges accorded to live-in students, and added that the experience of living off-campus has proved less satisfying than they expected...
DIED. Courtlandt S. Gross, 77, president, then chairman of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. from 1956 to 1967, who turned the struggling company into a leviathan; of gunshot wounds during a break-in by intruders who also shot his wife and a live-in housekeeper; at their mansion in Villanova, Pa. Originally a salesman, Gross entered Lockheed in 1932 when his older brother Robert and partners bought control of a company then in receivership. Under Gross, Lockheed diversified, building satellites, Poseidon missiles and ships in addition to supersonic airplanes. During one astounding four-year burst in the early 1960s, he nearly doubled...
...life. She claims to have seen her father commit suicide when she was twelve, though he died of an alcoholic liver. In that same year, she insists, she was raped in Hyde Park, though this is her symbolic retaliation for her mother's remarriage. She is also a live-in pyromaniac who blithely announces: "I set fire to things...