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What boasts six staterooms, quilted leather ceilings, a steam room, a screening room, 14 bathrooms, two Harley-Davidson motorcycles, two racing boats and, oh yes, a helicopter? (No peeking at the picture.) The answer, from the ever grand Malcolm Forbes, is a brand-new yacht he discreetly describes as "dramatically restrained, in quiet taste, nothing opulent." At least not for someone who collects million-dollar Faberge eggs for fun. Last week 107 guests, including Secretary of State George Shultz and Chief Justice Warren Burger, came aboard to admire the $5 million, 151-ft. three-decker at the Forbes magazine tycoon...
...Shugar, vice president of Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering society, said the contest was a way to "ease the pressure, to let off steam" before final examinations...
...Boys. A grand hotel for their rich friends. The bar would offer drinks like "the Caligula" or "the Vlad the Impaler." Imelda Marcos and Michelle Duvalier could meet by the pool for a "Lady Macbeth." The Big Boys could swagger around and try to seduce one another's wives. Steam baths, massages, the camaraderie of the locker room. They could shoot pigeons and get drunk, and now and then they could pretend to have one of their flunkies taken out and shot. Or better yet, the victim could just vanish, without explanation, without a trace. The good old days...
...members said that the university's decision to tear down the shanties stemmed from its fear that the divestment movement was gaining steam. They said that university's move directly followed a campus-wide referendum which revealed that more than half of the undergraduates, graduate students and faculty members supported divestment...
...this program emphasizes "more ephemeral work," said project administrator Katherine S. Mayes. Poets, dancers, musicians, a woman who works with steam, an MIT holograph artist, and a clown have all submitted work to Arts on the Line, Mayes said...