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...rush-hour traffic on Moscow's broad boulevards was moving at a crawl when the convoys of black ZIL limousines, amber lights gleaming, appeared out of the morning mist. The motorcades whipped by at 70 m.p.h., down empty center lanes marked off for official traffic. The more than 300 members of the Communist Party's Central Committee were on their way to the Kremlin for their annual winter session. All of them but one. There was no hint of the whereabouts of the Soviet Union's head of state, Yuri Andropov, 69, who had not been seen...
April 2--Returning from spring break, students find work has begun outside the Science Center on the Large "suspended mist" fountain planned earlier in the fall. Workers dig out a large circle and start laying plumbing, while curious passers by block entrance to the Science Center. Meanwhile, the Radcliffe Office of the Arts has anticipated the interest in "community art" in distributing grant money, a large chunk of which has gone to Christo, the avant-garde artist, to visit Harvard and wrap the Science Center...
...Christo, having belatedly heard about the damage to Gund Hall, wires an offer "to come back and wrap it tighter." Bok turns down the offer but suggests that Christo consider trying to wrap the mist arising from the new fountain. "Space is structure," he points...
...Basically, it will be like the mist at the bottom of a crashing waterfall, but without the crashing," Walker said...
...fountain may also include an automatic wind detector which, in high winds, will lower the height of the mist, Oommen said...