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...five-story center, on the corner of Eliot and John F. Kennedy Streets, features the plush, 175-seat Harry Starr Auditorium, the 80-seat Edwin H. Land Hall, the Alexander Graham Bell Hall, and the Belfer Center's version of the ARCO Forum, dubbed "Town Hall...
...line requires omniscience, then David knows it all: "Some Promised Land. The honey was there, but the milk we brought in with our goats. To people in California, God gives a magnificent coastline, a movie industry, and Beverly Hills. To us He gives sand. To Cannes He gives a plush film festival. We get the P.L.O." So the old fellow is up on Yasser Arafat and the contemporary mess in the Middle East? Yes and no. When Heller wants to try for irony, he keeps David in the dark: "I put garrisons in Damascus and in the Golan heights...
...airline, Virgin Atlantic, made its maiden flight from Gatwick Airport near London to Newark Airport near New York City. It carried 465 passengers, most paying a cut-rate $138, about $230 less than current standard transatlantic fares. The price will rise to $167 on July 1. An ultra-plush first-class service is also available at $1,400, about the same that other carriers charge for first class...
...however, cannot be quite as demanding as they were some months ago. According to many realtors, there was a glut of private accommodations on the market even before the boycott, forcing widespread price cutting. But some Angelenos hit the jackpot. Chuckled Steve Obeck, who arranged the lease of eight plush residences to East European groups with full payment in advance: "Those homeowners can have their cake and eat it too. They can stay home for the Games...
...baloney!" he exclaimed in an interview with TIME last week. "Everybody's going to be psychoanalyzed. Jimmy Carter was, Richard Nixon was, George McGovern was. It's just part of the deal. But my childhood was as happy as one can be in not plush economic circumstances." He changed his signature, he explained, "to make it easier to read." (To make his Senate letterhead signature legible, Hart dropped his middle name and switched from script to print.) As for the age change, which apparently occurred about the time Hart turned 30, "There's nothing sinister there. There...