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Foreign ministers of the 16 NATO countries, meeting last week in Washington and at Wye Plantation, an 18th century mansion on Maryland's Eastern Shore, heartily endorsed this approach. Some of the ministers who had recently visited Moscow ventured several explanations for Soviet surliness. They theorized that the U.S.S.R. is on the defensive because of such incidents as the shooting down of the Korean airliner last summer and the failure of the European peace movement to stop the deployment of U.S. missiles in Europe. The ministers speculated that the Kremlin is deliberately fanning anxiety in the hope of causing...
...Juan Carlos was known is an avid sportsman (and still is, although a pelvic injury last year has slowed him somewhat). He was a member of Spain's 1972 Dragon-class Olympic sailing team. A black belt in karate, it was said its kept his broken boards in a mansion closet. He is also an avid motorcyclist...
Every other Monday, seven men get together in what used to be a bedroom in Harvard's official President's Mansion and discuss the future of the University. They are the men who comprise Harvard's governing Corporation and they have final authority on all matters of University policy and finance. Their workings, however, remain some-what mysterious to a large part of the University community. Many professors and almost all students go through their time at Harvard without ever coming in direct contact with the Corporation. The President and Fellows of Harvard College, as the Corporation is officially called...
...masculine exercise. But today, as their lives have opened out into new careers and broader avenues of participation in American life, women are acquiring political power to a degree that they never have before. Relatively few women occupy major offices; there is only one woman in a Governor's mansion (Kentucky's), two in the Senate and 22 in the House. But women officeholders are proliferating at the state and local levels, steadily filling the channels of talent that lead to Capitol Hill and, eventually, the White House (see following story). As voters, women are now making themselves a potentially...
...created the newly expanded Egyptian galleries, which are named for her, and provided in perpetuity for fresh flowers in the Great Hall. She also contributed heavily to the restoration of Monet's magnificent gardens at Giverny, to the renovation of Boscobel, an early 19th century Federal mansion not far from her home in suburban New York, and to the massive efforts to save the ancient Egyptian temples at Abu Simbel. Meticulously organized and attentive even to small details, she believed, "Beauty is medicine...