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Around Commencement time, most Cambridge hotel rooms are filled with Harvard guests, who made their reservations last year if not earlier. The Harvard Motor Lodge has been booked for three and one half years--since spring of the Class of '87's freshman year...
Despite a grand Venetian setting, this year's summit agenda calls for more work and less public ceremony for the participants. President Reagan will travel every morning by covered motor launch across the Venetian lagoon from the plush Hotel Cipriani, where he will stay, to the tiny Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, situated directly across from the famous Piazza San Marco. The formal summit talks will take place in the bay-windowed, dark-paneled library of a 17th century Benedictine monastery on the miniature island. Security will be so tight that the traditional photograph of the summit leaders will...
...scheme (don't ask how or why); the music-video montages of the good life in Beverly Hills alternating with sudden descents into motiveless and entirely humorless violence; the none-too-subtle maneuverings to bring Murphy into contact with variously dim figures who can be run over by his motor mouth; the police colleague-foils, who, besides Reinhold, include John Ashton and Ronny Cox and whose chief function is to shake their heads bemusedly over Murphy's improvisational nerve and witty, if occasionally obscene, sayings...
Wilbur won the toss and went first: "He lay down on the lower wing with his hips in the padded wingwarping cradle, while Orville made a last-minute adjustment to the motor. When everything was ready, Wilbur tried to release the rope fastening the machine to the rail, but the thrust of the propellers was so great he could not get it loose and two of the men had to forcibly push the Flyer backward a few inches until the rope slipped free. Orville ran beside the machine, balancing it with one hand. In the other hand he held...
...founder's 40 or so living descendants, about a dozen work at Hearst, but most of them hold relatively minor jobs. John Hearst Jr. is an editor of Motor Boating & Sailing, while Anne is an editor at Town & Country. The Examiner's Will Hearst, one of the company's stars, is considered a candidate to run the company, but he denies that ambition and praises Bennack. "Having a Hearst in charge could make things more divisive within the family," he says...