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...become a lively midtown gathering place. Peterson introduced jazz vespers on Sundays, and made the basement into a lunchtime theater where office workers could eat their sandwiches and watch plays. Saint Peter's had found a new role in the city, and the well-named Peterson was loath to move out. Yet the church held the key position on the block. The solution: Citicorp bought the old church for $9 million, demolished it and built in its place a new structure that included a chapel and sanctuary. The church bought this new building, under an unusual condominium contract...
...play's end there still remains the disorienting disclosure of the performers' gender. All along, The Club has been a bastion of masculinity whose patrons have seemed enamored of their lifestyle and loath to relinquish it. But suddenly we learn that the play is intended to reflect what women believe men think. Throwing off its comic guise. The Club reveals itself to be social commentary...
...afternoon. Byrd told the President that the Lance case would not simply fade away, that the OMB director's effectiveness was being "seriously eroded," and that Carter's own reputation and effectiveness were in serious jeopardy. The implication of Byrd's message was that if the President was still loath to fire Lance, he should at least distance himself from his wounded friend...
Experiments with the lowly E. coli bacterium hold a promise of many marvels, including food crops that require little fertilizer and the production of new tools for the understanding of disease, perhaps including cancer. Pursuing such research, biologists are naturally loath to become ensnared in more Government regulations. They point out that governmental regulation poses inherent dangers to the freedom of inquiry that science requires. Comments Biochemist Robert White of the National Academy of Sciences: "I hate to see the camel's nose under the tent...
Koivumaki predicted the tent would not only shelter more people but also draw others outside. "It will show them," he said, "that there was a designated place outside" to eat. Last year, without this, people were loath to go outside, although it was "hotter than hell" in Palmer-Dixon, Koivumaki said...