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...still very much a bonnie bachelor, and his beguiling ways charmed every lass in sight. But during his four-day visit to Washington last week, the Prince kept the flirting to a fribble. He is, after all, to marry Lady Diana Spencer, 19, this summer. Charles toured the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, took a trip to Williamsburg, Va., where he received an honorary degree from the College of William and Mary, and attended a small dinner party at the White House. During an Oval Office chat with President Ronald Reagan, the conversation quickly turned to horses...
Leon's vision was of a broader market for the Bean line: His grandfather focused almost totally on hunting, fishing and camping; Leon added a fourth category--attending social functions. L. L. had advertised in Field & Stream; his grandson began buying space in the New Yorker, Smithsonian, and a host of other publications. Gun-toting hunters had beat a path to L. L.'s door in his lifetime; they have been joined in years since by racquet-toting preppies...
...still not absolutely convinced that it exists," Lee Hartmann, an astronomer at the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory said Monday. He added that the huge star could actually be a cluster of smaller ones too far away from the earth for observers to differentiate them...
Cuba has no policy against letting scholars visit the United States, Cuban and U.S. officials in Washington said this week, adding that visits of a week or less for speeches or conferences are common. Some institutions, among them the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, have ongoing programs for the exchange of groups of researchers...
...guests at the Washington Hilton: "I've finally decided that I'm not going to wake up. It isn't a dream." The Reagans danced, at last, at their eighth stop, the party in the ornate Pension Office Building, to Moonlight Serenade, and again at the Smithsonian's American History Museum to You 'II Never Know...