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...movable feast moved on in the 1960s, and the hotel grew musty and passé. Earlier this month, when the hotel's owners suddenly began hacking away at the carved wood and plaster walls on the ground floor, less than a quarter of the guest rooms were occupied. The 200 guests had every right to be startled by the demolition. But from the band of local preservationists, who fought a losing three-day legal battle to stop the demolition, the shock was a mockery: they learned in May that the owners planned to strip the 26-story Biltmore...
...there is no way to shape and mold the thousands of metal parts that go into fighter planes and new tanks, into cruise missiles and Trident submarines. Northrop Corp., which co-produces the F/A-18 Hornet fighter, is already short of such specialized tradespeople as jig-and-fixture experts and plaster patternmakers. Says Donald Smith, director of the University of Michigan's industrial development division: "A recovering economy and a boom in defense orders could create the biggest industrial-demand crunch we've seen since 1941." Though the skills squeeze is hitting just about every sector of industry...
...Rodin's climactic work, The Gates of Hell, commissioned by a foundation set up by the artist's most obsessed American enthusiast, the collector B. Gerald Cantor; and the Gates can now be seen in the context of other, related Rodins for the first time since its plaster was exhibited...
...rising from the sea than the future Queen of England. But the royal figure of Lady Diana Spencer, 19, will be appropriately demure by the time it joins the waxed likenesses of Prince Charles, 32, her husband-to-be, at London's famed Madame Tussaud's. A plaster mold was made of Sculptor Muriel Pearson's feat of clay, from which a wax figure is being shaped; later it will be colored and dressed. The Di will be cast shortly before the royal wedding on July...
...Quincy House intramural tacke-football squard proved unbeatable this season, blowing away all of its Harvard competition and then going on to plaster Yale's Berkely-Calhoun College, 20-6, during Yale weekend competition. Other houses followed Q-World's example; Winthrop, Kirkland, South and Currier rolled over their Eli counterparts. Harvard came off well during the weekend's intramural competition, capturing 21 of 28 contests...