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...federal government does not object to MIT's buying a supercomputer, said Commerce Department spokesman Desiree Tucker. "The letter was meant to assure MIT that we had no problem with [the purchase]," Tucker said...
...coronation fit for Don King. Earlier in the evening Mike Tyson had won a unanimous decision over Tony Tucker, thereby making Tyson the first fighter in a decade to be simultaneously recognized as the World Heavyweight Boxing champion by all three of the sport's ruling bodies: the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council and the International Boxing Federation. So to mark the occasion, Promoter King decided to mount a "throneization" at the Las Vegas Hilton. With Actor Dennis Hopper, Comic Eddie Murphy and former King of Boxing Muhammad Ali in attendance, King presented Tyson with a blue chinchilla...
...artists' friends comfort the afflicted. Manhattan Gallery Owner Holly Solomon knows dozens of AIDS victims. "One night this April," she recalls, "I went to Willi Smith's memorial. Then to Fourcade's funeral on Friday morning. That same week Tucker Ashworth ((p.r. chief for the city planning commission)) became very, very ill. At his home I held him in my arms and tried to console him. He died about a month later." The disease infects her business as well. "One day a woman called me to sell paintings her son had collected. He died when he was 31; she couldn...
Thirteen-year-old Tucker McCrady didn't understand his first stage role. He was cast in Waiting for Lefty at his Sewannee, Tennessee school. Called on to play a Jewish doctor during the Depression who was being fired because of his religion, the young McCrady was confused, especially about why the doctor was fired. But after long rehersals with the director, McCrady could act the part without really understanding it. A few months later his school was set to perform the Mikado. But McCrady sat that one out: "It sounded Japanese, and I couldn't sing and didn't want...
While many actors go to New York undertrained and short on contacts, Tucker McCrady has the closest thing to a ticket to success. He is a member of Julliard's 20th dramatic arts class. To gain admission, he competed against more than 600 people for one of the 20 openings. At the prestigious school he will receive voice, movement, dance, and acting lessons among others...