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Judging from his performance as guest host of TV's irreverent, ploddingly skittish variety show, NBC's Saturday Night, Presidential Press Secretary Ron Nessen does not have much future as a comedian. The question some people were asking last week is what sort of future does he have as a presidential press secretary? With good-natured daring, Nessen-a former NBC newsman-appeared in several satiric turns with Gagster Chevy Chase, whose weekly specialty is a lampoon of Ron's accident-prone boss. Nessen played straight man as Chase impersonated President Ford stapling...
Although Soldiers Field Park, Harvard's new $22.5 million apartment complex, is meant to be a restrained place, these days it's bustling with a subtle sort of activity. Construction crews are putting the finishing touches on two of the complex's four buildings, so that they will be ready for occupancy in time for the summer and fall rush. Earnest young couples wander into the complex's model apartments to talk to George Chase of the Harvard Real Estate Office and see if it's the life for them. Planting is continuing on Soldier Field Park's 1500 shrubs...
...nowhere else, in their music. It was like you just couldn't walk into a coffee house in the Village or even Roseland Dance City any more, listen to Sly (Dance to the Music) or like the Byrds (Hey Mr. Tangerine Man) and not walk out without some sort of ideology or a big fat lump in your throat. Bo Diddley was passe; Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper were, respectively, dead; Cream was strictly for Anglophiles; you were growing up--bye, bye Ms. American pie--you needed consciousness, man, Albert Shanker had taken over the nation's schools...
...Beach, shrugs off the bigamy problem and insists: "This is a very moral enterprise. We're trying to get the largest number of people living together to come in and get married legally." Chapel owners are legally authorized to preside at weddings as long as they have some sort of ministerial certificate, which in California is almost as easy to get as a secret wedding. Last year Dr. Morey, who says he is a minister, got 1,500 couples to come in and marry, at $20 per ceremony...
...technical design by John Carson innovatively surmounts the limitations of the Kirkland House Junior Common Room. He has fashioned a sort of theater-in-the-middle with the stage, which has been designed to blend in with JCR decor, located in the center of the room and audience situated on either side...