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...demand is so great that the number of neon workshops in the nation has risen from fewer than 500 ten years ago to more than 1,000 (although that is still below the pre-World War II total of 1,500). The upswing is more than fashionable nostalgia. "This is not a fad," says Jeff Friedman, president of Manhattan's Neon City, which has such clients as Bloomingdale's and Haagen-Dazs ice cream parlors. "It's becoming a necessity for business, especially storefronts." Most workshops cannot keep up with orders, and not only because their business is growing...
DIED. Ina Claire, 95, actress of insouciant charm and wit who graced vaudeville in the pre-World War I era, silent films and later talkies, but mostly the Broadway stage, where she specialized from 1917 to 1954 in the highly varnished comedies of bad manners and good breeding (The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, 1925; Biography, 1932; Ode to Liberty, 1934) in which the characters misbehave in venomous, perfectly timed epigrams; in San Francisco...
...without a cemented ideological basis. In 1974, we punished the Republicans for Watergate and stripped them of more than 40 House seats. In 1980, we rejected President Carter and the Democratic malaise to give the GOP 34 seats. Two years ago, in the midst of the worst recession since pre-World War 11 days, we doled out 26 seats to the President's opposition party. And this year, we rewarded the Republicans with a 14-seat gift for the economic recovery...
...prospect of East German Leader Erich Honecker's tentatively scheduled visit to West Germany Sept. 26-29, the Soviets stepped up their efforts last week to sow discontent between the two countries. Soviet commentators did little to else but denounce West German "revanchism," the desire to restore pre-World War II boundaries, describing the country as virtually a reborn Third Reich that is preparing to launch another blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union. Despite an improving relationship between East and West Germany this year, Honecker may decide not to brave such Soviet opposition. Indeed, when officials in Bonn and East...
...renovated, North House, built in the late 40s,would be the only exception to the College's push to renovate pre-World War II buildings, according to Quinn. "North House posed real problems because the dinning hall was too small, and it is the oldest of the newer buildings," he said...