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Curator Clem Conger, who has lovingly guided the White House to new levels of grace and beauty, says the mansion never looked better, nor has there ever been so much interest in its history. There will soon be two new volumes on just that subject, part of the flood tide of material on the presidency...
...botanical gardens, up the Avenue de la Paix, through a heavy iron gate, past a phalanx of Soviet sentries and onto the grounds of the Villa Rose, which houses the Soviet mission. Kampelman will be met by his counterpart, Victor Karpov. Inside a modernistic annex to the baroque mansion, the two delegations will take their places at a long table, with Kampelman flanked by two colleagues on the U.S. team, former Texas Senator John Tower and Diplomat Maynard Glitman. After an exchange of pleasantries, the negotiators will plunge into the tedious yet vital business of seeking reductions in Intercontinental...
...Nobel Prizewinners Bellow, Czeslaw Milosz and Claude Simon as well as Playwright Arthur Miller and International PEN President Per Wästberg. They mingled in places as dissimilar as hotel coffee shops and the 34-room apartment of Saul Steinberg, the takeover artist. There was also a party at Gracie Mansion, where Mayor Edward Koch and Poet Allen Ginsberg hummed a mantra, and a wall-to-wall reception in the vast Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Milling around the reconstructed Temple of Dendur, star watchers could search for the Santa Claus figure of Canadian Novelist Robertson Davies...
...opening the doors to Malacaņang Palace last week, President Corazon Aquino was hoping to close the doors, symbolically, on an era of covert monarchy. True to her campaign promise, the new leader turned the Marcos mansion into the People's Park, a public museum. Faithful so far to another promise, the former housewife showed every sign of for-swearing the designer life-style of her predecessors. She still operates out of a guesthouse next to the Spanish-style palace and commutes to work from her modest suburban home...
...trend sends a clear message that many more Harvard students want membership in a social club than the eight all-male final clubs can provide. But with Harvard Square real estate prices far higher than any newly formed club can afford, the prospects of adding another Mt. Auburn mansion to the Harvard social scene seems close to impossible...