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Despite the rather biased tone of William Mckibben's article. "City Blocks Work on Condo Project," (Crimson, December 8), one contradiction comes through to explain the neighborhood's surprise at the posting of a demolition notice at 134 Mount Auburn...
...viewer wrote, "My mother recently had an unfortunate experience with Mrs. Smith's chicken crepes." The audience tensed. Host David Horowitz let the suspense mount, holding the letter in his hand, pausing as if he were about to hop a slow freight into the twilight zone. Then he related the outcome: Mom-who isn't the kind of person who usually does these things-sat down and dropped the Mrs. Smith folks a line. She told them what one of their featherweight delicacies had done to her dental work, and the folks at Mrs. Smith sent...
...electronic cameras, which automatically focus and determine light settings, almost anyone can film action: a fire, a raging crowd or an erupting volcano. Only someone with a special eye can catch those odd and revealing juxtapositions that give meaning to the obvious and jejune. The portraits of an exploding Mount St. Helens were awesomely beautiful; but it was San Jose Mercury News Photographer George Wedding's aerial picture of Andy, an eleven-year-old who had been asphyxiated by volcanic ash as he lay in the back of a pickup, that conveyed the awful power of that awful beauty...
...White Gloves and Party Manners" are instructed in such arcane lore as curtsying ("When you are presented to the Queen, your head should scrape the ground"). "Blue Blazer" seminars for boys omit the candlelight in favor of a clubroom atmosphere. At the Belk Tyler store in Rocky Mount, N.C., a White Gloves class, which opened in September, has been "a phenomenal success," according to Operations Manager Fred Combs. Says he: "Children are learning things they'd never learn at home...
Wide Receivers--Curt Grieve, Yale, 6-4, 200, Senior, Mount Lebanon, Pa; Derek Graham, Princeton, 5-10, 170, Sophomore, Los Angeles, Calif...