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Last month both attended a Florida conference on immunology, and while fellow conferees slept, Stoler and Good continued their talks over chilled orange juice, watching the sun rise over St. Petersburg...
Ground zero is Boston and its environs, which Lelchuk turns into a combination Sodom and St. Petersburg on the eve of the Russian Revolution. His characters even faction off nicely into modern American equivalents of Mensheviks, Bolsheviks and Nihilists, with Lenny Pincus, a subway Trotsky from Brooklyn, hopelessly trying to keep two feet in all three camps...
...Year's Eve in St. Petersburg, Fla., but "neither of us had been drinking," said Actor King Donovan. "Suddenly there was a crash." The automobile accident left Donovan's wife, Comedienne Imogene Coca, with a ruptured eyeball that Florida doctors insisted had to be removed. "I didn't want to go along with that decision," said Donovan. He chartered a plane, and flew Imogene to Manhattan. After doctors there performed corneal surgery, reconstructed the right side of her face and put her fractured leg in a cast, Donovan announced the results: "She's fine...
...with topics as diverse as faculty tenure and garbage collection, the format has provided a flexible method for airing complicated subjects. An eight-part series on the presidential race, for instance, presented both the Nixon and McGovern positions on basic issues. In contrast with the known views of St. Petersburg voters, Times editorials endorsed the McGovern stand seven times out of eight, but because the Republican side was fairly set forth, few complained...
Acrobatics. In late October a member of the St. Petersburg city council asked the Times to prepare a pro-con page on a proposed runway extension to accommodate private jets at the city's small airstrip, an issue that was coming up for council consideration. The Times complied, presented reasons for and against the expansion, then opposed it editorially. Ultimately, the council approved the project, but at least the Times editorial page has begun to earn the kind of attention Pittman desired...