Word: stationers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though tales of libidinous mischief on Capitol Hill are not exactly rare, the allegations that surfaced last week about the sexual conduct of an Ohio Congressman came as something of a shock. In a conversation secretly videotaped by a Columbus television station last November, Republican Donald Lukens talked with Anna Coffman, an unemployed widow, in a fast-food restaurant about his relationship with the woman's daughter, now 17. "I couldn't understand a man in your position, why you're messin' around with these teenagers," said Coffman. Replied Lukens, who turns 58 this week: "I didn't really know...
Coffman's daughter told the station that Lukens had twice paid her for sex: in 1985, when she was 13, and again last year. In his videotaped chat with the mother, Lukens seemed to suggest that he might arrange a Government job for her. Though the FBI says there is no evidence that the lawmaker was offering Coffman a bribe in exchange for her silence, the Franklin County prosecutor is considering whether to file criminal charges against the Congressman. Lukens, who has been divorced since 1983, refused to comment...
...harried commuter who has everything, the Minato Pharmaceutical Co. is marketing the portable Toilet Pot. It consists of a plastic bag that contains a coagulant and is aimed at victims of Tokyo's often intractable traffic jams. For travelers, a two-story suite of rest rooms called the Charm Station opened last spring in Udatsu-cho on Shikoku Island. It boasts six toilets with international motifs, including the Rose of Versailles, which features a white porcelain bowl decorated with pink roses and exuding the flower's fragrance, and the Fin de Siecle in Vienna, which offers a rococo bowl...
Putting a hotel on the Gulf station site would upset the balance. The bustle and commotion of the Square's western end--now relatively self-contained--would be pushed outward, destroying the area's neighborhood atmosphere...
...that the Gulf station is down, the University should reassess its priorities, weighing the need for new hotel space with the problems it might entail. With the addition of even a "limited service" hotel on the Gulf station site, Harvard Square might become a nicer place to visit, but you certainly wouldn't want to live there...