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STUART CARY WELCH joined his grammar school class on a field trip to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts when he was 11. At the museum, the students dutifully marched through an exhibition of Indian and Persian paintings. Welch's classmates, one supposes, paid attention to the paintings for as long as they had to. But Welch really liked what he saw. He liked it so much, in fact, that seven years later, after he finished his schooling at St. Paul's, Welch came back to Boston to study fine arts at Harvard...
...would be too easy to call Stuart Cary Welch an eccentric. In his office on the very top floor of the Fogg art museum, secluded among his collection of documents about Persian, Indian and Mughal painting, Welch thinks and writes about things that most people don't think and write about. He carries a battered Vuiton briefcase and wears J. Press shirts spackled with paint, spotted with holes, striped with tradition. He has a tendency, as one of his friends says, to "show up in sweaters that have been worn day in and day out." He is independently wealthy; there...
...Cadillac Seville, but at least he doesn't have to worry about the prices. You see, Mr. N's brother is a professor at MIT, so now he has an Exxon-MIT charge card. It's good for free gas anywhere in the United States or the Persian Gulf...
...also strengthened the alliance by defying Soviet protests and allowing the U.S. to deploy medium-range nuclear missiles in some countries. To bolster NATO even more, the U.S. is asking its friends to assume further responsibility for their own defense, thereby freeing American forces for duty in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere...
...Imports from Iran, which once totaled $3 billion a year but have been reduced to a sprinkling of dates, goatskins and Persian rugs...