Word: metropolitane
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...Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia must be a Russian. Until last week, that is, when yet another unbreakable rule was broken in the Soviet Union. At the resplendently gilded Trinity-St. Sergius monastery in Zagorsk, ceremonial bells and chimes greeted the election of an Estonian of German stock, Metropolitan Aleksy of Leningrad, as the next Patriarch. It is the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution that the Russian Orthodox Church has chosen its leader free of manipulation by the atheistic regime...
...answers to those questions glow through every glass panel and glisten from every opalescent surface in "Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany," an exhibition on view through Sept. 9 at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tiffany expert and curator Alastair Duncan has assembled 72 rarely seen works for this spaciously mounted show: monumental stained-glass windows, richly patterned leaded-glass lamps, delicate hand-blown vases and impressionistic gold jewelry...
...subways have long been a heaven for panhandlers, who can enjoy a captive clientele of hundreds of passengers when they board a train. (Some riders, after all, are not hardened against being dunned for donations.) Because these discomforting confrontations tend to drive down ridership while increasing panhandlership, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority last year decided to enforce rules that ban begging underground as well as in other public-transport facilities...
...result of nearly 2 1/2 centuries of collecting." The reluctance to fess up may account for the absence from this show of some of the real lulus of American public collections, such as the fake Etruscan warriors that until some 30 years ago were star exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City...
...enterprising city employees eager to make more money. Says Nguyen Cong Ai, vice chairman of the local People's Committee: "Our private economy is much stronger now. We are learning the lessons of the market. We want to cooperate with foreign cities, to be an open door for Vietnam." Metropolitan Saigon has a population of 3.9 million. The port itself and textile and garment manufacturing are the city's biggest industries...