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...have the necessary dignity and grandeur, an entrance hall requires daylight. It also requires a marker, a visible symbol. Says Pei: "You can't just walk down as into a subway. The Louvre needs something prestigious." The idea of putting glass over the entrance took care of the daylight, but the glass needed a shape...
...racers like Johnson are highly sought after to lend their glamour and success to products ranging from Marker bindings to Mentholatum lip balm. Says Heinz Herzog, president of Raichle Molitor: "There's no question that we get a boost in sales every time a top name is seen wearing our brand." When Olympic competition begins at Sarajevo next week, the manufacturers expect to bask in a glow of publicity that peaks once every four years...
...host of the conference, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, said that he did not expect a "rapid thaw" in the superpower chill but he could at least foresee "some cautious melting." The Shultz and Gromyko meeting in Stockholm seemed too tentative to serve as a reliable marker on the road back to a warmer U.S.-Soviet climate. But more warmth is wanted...
...more like a movie star than the movie stars, with the exception of Gregory Peck, who still makes one expect Moby Dick to swim in after him. Shirley Temple Black, who visited the White House in 1938 at age ten, still had much of the sparkle of Little Miss Marker. There were Rockefellers and Roosevelts and Boeing Chief T. Wilson and Los Angeles Olympics Wizard Peter Ueberroth...
Despite recent peace feelers by Managua to Washington, most of the pro-Sandinista solidarity groups see little chance that U.S. policy will change. But the Yankees have no intention of going home. Says Witness for Peace Spokesman Dennis Marker: "We are prepared to continue our vigil until the U.S. ends its support of the contras...