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Architect-Entrepreneur John Portman has done as much as anyone to turn Atlanta into a boom town-and a good-looking one at that. In the process he has become a multimillionaire. Once a part-time usher in a local moviehouse, he designed and was an initial owner of the $200 million Peachtree Center complex of office buildings, shops, restaurants and hotels, including the spectacular Hyatt Regency Atlanta, that has revived the city's downtown...
...usher, a young kid with straw-colored hair sticking out from under an oversize cap, bends to peer inside a dragster, then remembers that he is an official usher and quickly straightens up. "We gotta keep our eye out for ruffians," he says. "Haven't seen...
...fourth time in the past five years. Harvard students are being asked to usher in the balmy days of spring by observing some sort of University strike. The Graduate Student and Teaching Fellow Union is requesting members of the Harvard-Radcliffe community to neither teach nor attend class beginning today until their strike is settled. Union picket lines will circle major classroom buildings, exhorting students and an occasional Faculty member to remain outside. The issues are complex and somewhat obscure for most undergraduates. The following summary of the dispute is intended to clarify the major points of contention...
...recent years, many have seen Memorial Church as a place for easygoing Christianity, among them Paul C. Stone '74, head usher at the church. Stone says that he has not seen any change in atmosphere under Gomes. "The church is a sort of halfway station--a place for those not really committed to any particular kind of Christianity. There are plenty of places in Boston for those who have decided...
...most closely watched barometer began flirting with 1000 as early as January 1966, but it always fell back without closing above that figure-to the chagrin of Wall Streeters who hoped that a widely ballyhooed breakthrough would give a big boost to public confidence in the market and usher in a new era of prosperity for the securities business. Last week, however, the Dow finally crashed through. On Tuesday it closed at 1003; later it wobbled back below 1000 but came back to close the week at a record high of nearly...