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Once again those "little cable cars" were "climbing halfway to the stars." So one star came the other half of the way to meet them, celebrating the cars' reappearance after a two-year, $60 million restoration job. Tony Bennett, 57, his heart still in his throat, on his sleeve...
King Juan Carlos of Spain at Harvard: "Nineteen ninety-two will be the 500th anniversary of one of the most important happenings in human history: the arrival in America of the three Castilian caravels chartered by my ancestors, the Catholic monarchs, and commanded by Christopher Columbus. It is not so...
"He's Mr. Detents, Mr. Democracy, and Mr. Peaceful Resolution of Conflict," Karl commented yesterday referring to Carlos's restoration of Spanish-Soviet relations for the first time since the Spanish Civil War and his advocacy of non-intervention into Latin American affairs.
"The renovations at the Quad will be more expensive per square foot than the ones at the River," Quinn said, adding, "It's more of restoration work at the River and renovation work at the Quad."
DIED. Lila Acheson Wallace, 94, ebullient, strong-minded co-founder and -owner of Reader's Digest, with her late husband DeWitt Wallace, and one of America's greatest philanthropists; in Mount Kisco, N.Y. The couple met in 1920 when he was struggling to start his new venture, and...