Word: ops
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Volcker, who was graduated summa cum laude from Princeton and took his master's degree in political economy at Harvard, is an avid deep-sea fisherman. Before his two children grew up and he moved with his wife to a co-op on Manhattan's Upper East Side, he was a dedicated gardener at his New Jersey home, and he once tried growing grapes to produce his own wine. His report on Château Volcker grand cru: "It came out like shellac." He is from a middle-class family-his father was city manager of Teaneck...
...preparation for his campaign, Brown has lately increased his overtures to his party's left wing, most of which op posed his support this year of a constitutional convention to write a budget-balancing amendment. Brown has been emphasizing his opposition to nuclear power, and now appears frequently with Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda, two leading activists. Explains one Brown aide: "Jerry has no national constituency, so Hayden and Fonda have offered him a connection to the antiwar, antinuclear crowd, and he's taken...
...average selling price of a Manhattan co-op has jumped to more than $30,000 a room, from $18,000 a year ago and $11,000 in 1974. In Chicago, the typical condominium price per room is $46,000, vs. $30,000 last year. Demand is strong: all 280 condos in one town-house complex in Los Angeles' Century Hills sold out even before construction began. Prices: $230,000 to $400,000 per apartment...
...laugh at the fact in the nation's captital 30 years ago, an editor of the Washington Post ordered pearson's columm banished to the comic pages, " where it belongs." Several years ago, the post offered to put Anderson's columm on its more prestigous Op-Ed page, but Anderson, who figures that the comic page is better read, declined...
Astonishingly, Boston's was the first professional production of a Tippett op era in this country. (Northwestern Uni versity staged The Knot Garden in 1974.) Although U.S. orchestras are increasingly taking up his instrumental works, his acceptance here lags behind even his late blooming in England. Tippett says he al ways knew it would take him a lifetime to come to artistic fruition. And, he adds, -T was always arrogant enough to know I'd get there in the end." The Ice Break emphatically confirms that...