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Turning lost into profit, Bright, now 23, has made a career of designing mazes. Greg Bright's Maze Book, a collection of his designs, is a current In book in London, and will be published next week by Pantheon Books in the U.S. For those who can afford the real thing-say, an acre complex of tortuous passages between tall, dense hedges-Bright will produce an original design costing around $10,000 (materials and labor not included). His latest project, commissioned by the wealthy Lord...
Weymouth, will adorn Longleat House in Wiltshire, one of England's finest Elizabethan mansions, whose stately grounds were laid out by the legendary landscape architect Capability Brown. "Maze King" Bright, as he is known in Britain, will embellish Longleat with a lakefront, three-dimensional maze of yew hedges and no fewer than six covered bridges. The maze, when completed in several years, will be open to the public, but its secret, Bright has sworn, will be known only to himself and the Lord of Longleat...
Partial Values. Bright's plans are far more intricate than the famed Hampton Court Palace maze outside London ("Not much to solve there," sniffs Bright. " All you need to do is keep taking the left turn"). One Bright invention is what he calls the principle of "partial valves," by which, he says enigmatically, he introduces "a bias in a closed system of paths so I can make it more difficult to get from Point B to A than from A to B." Another feature of his people-traps is Bright's Principle...
...Jackie would get ranged wildly, from a high of $200 million or more (if a traditional Greek law entitling widows to 25% of an estate is found to apply) to a low of $2 million. The issue is complicated by the likelihood that the canny Onassis set up a maze of tax-resistant trusts. The best guess seems to be that Jackie will end up with about $100 million, and her children, John and Caroline Kennedy, with $15 million each. She is also expected to get the prime pickings of Ari's $20 million art collection, part of which...
...seeking to undrape ready resignation in a notoriously impatient people. And he is the first President to report that America's beacon light to the world has dimmed. Above all, Ford could not help conveying what his countrymen also sense-that the way out of the maze is technological as well as political. That is a burden on presidential leadership no other Chief Executive has had to bear...