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...with an open umbrella? Answer: Barbara ("Mary Poppins") Bush. That's the way the Second Lady billed herself after braving high altitude and Washington rain to top the national Christmas tree with a star on the Ellipse south of the White House. To crown the 30-ft. Colorado Spruce, Bush was given a lift in a cherry picker. The task comes with her job, she says: "Vice Presidents' wives go to funerals and top Christmas trees." They do not, however, light the evergreens. On Dec. 17, Ronald Reagan will perform that service...
...Florida, Spruce Creek Homes air park is being built around an old World War II Navy landing strip eight miles from Daytona Beach. It will eventually have 2,000 units, including houses and condominiums, plus commercial hangars for apartment dwellers with no access to the taxiways. Many air parks try to maintain the airborne motif throughout the community. At Colorado's 40-home Erie Air Park, near Boulder, the local restaurant is in a converted Convair 990 jetliner, and the "parking lot" out front is actually a taxiway where customers can roll up in their small planes...
...owns on the Miles River. But Rouse is not about to retire to his watery fastness. In April he announced a new venture, the Enterprise Development Corp., owned by a nonprofit organization, the Enterprise Foundation. The most ambitious Enterprise enterprise to date is a $13.5 million program to spruce up Norfolk's dreary waterfront. The project, about half the size of Harborplace, will employ much the same concept and include four or five restaurants, up to 20 other eating establishments and as many as 50 stores. Rouse estimates that the development will attract up to 6 million visitors...
Metallics can both set off a new wardrobe and spruce up an old one. Says Bendel President Geraldine Stutz: "It's fancy as opposed to plain, and we've had a big dose of plain." Kathy Byrne, 23, daughter of Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne, sports her pink, gold and blue metallic sandals to official events, including a recent reception for President Reagan. Says she: "I wear them to work and out for the evening. I have a metallic purse and earrings, and some gold-and-white bloomers that can be casual or dressy. I like the look because...
...tree, and each of them can consume five or ten small leaves a day. They seem especially partial to the majestic oak but also eat fruit trees like apple and cherry, the maple and, alas, the already imperiled elm. If nothing else is available, they will nibble away at spruce, hardy pines and hemlocks, even shrubs-more than 500 species...