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Situated in a rundown commercial section of Santiago, the Valdivia appears ordinary enough from the outside. It is the interior, with its 54 varied, exotic suites designed by Architect Daniel Zamudio and the hotel's owner Guillermo Mella, that distinguishes the place from other quickie havens. Says Owner Mella: "There is poetry here." There is also discretion. Cars glide quietly through a back gate, park in a row of partitioned stalls. A middle-aged matron in a white nurse's uniform greets the couple, leads them down a corridor lined with a rock garden and waterfalls...
East Orange has many faces: the tree-lined streets and substantial houses of the well-heeled First Ward, the old, rundown frame houses of the Fifth Ward, the modern apartment buildings that tower over both. The citizens of East Orange lead parallel but unlinked lives. Some 55% to 60% of them are black, and black-white contacts are guarded. "I have the feeling that people don't quite trust one another,'' says Mrs. Dorothy Scull, a school board member. But there is more to their isolation from one another than race. Many of the homeowners feel that...
...mind came in April of last year when a group of students, community residents, and street people seized Lawrence Hall and declared it a "Free University." The situation bore many resemblances to the current occupation of the Architectural Technology Workshop: the building was old, little-used, and rundown, and it was slated for demolition...
Chicago's changeable weather poses other problems. Mrs. Terri D'Ancone, for example, lounges abed mornings until Husband Alfie returns from walking the family poodle and brings a firsthand, down-to-earth weather report. Other tenants rely on radio weathermen or phone for a taped rundown. The height itself worries few tenants; no acrophobe would ever think of moving in. Curtains are not really necessary, although residents use them simply to produce a sense of intimacy or to screen out the early-morning sun. One female tenant, flinging open her curtains one morning before donning a robe, confronted...
...rundown of these five key contests and three others of special interest: OHIO. In assessing his party's nominee for Governor, an Ohio Republican recently referred to Roger Cloud as "a nice guy, but when he walks into a room, nothing happens." Cloud has walked into a political race where nothing good, from his standpoint, will happen either. Fallout from a state-loan scandal has crippled State Auditor Cloud and the rest of the G.O.P. ticket. At the campaign's outset, Cloud unsuccessfully demanded that two of his running mates, who had accepted political contributions from borrowers...