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Mougalian was required to withdraw from the school by the Administrative Board and spent his first year as a facilities maintenance worker for the Massachusetts-based Varian Company and his second year and a half working at Waterstone's Booksellers in Boston...
...this is not the kind of show that offers a continuous visual feast or a crescendo of visual achievement. It is heavy (and has to be) with information, pamphlets, books, press clippings, old exhibition catalogs. It comes up with some intensely interesting and little-known figures, such as Varian Fry, the Scarlet Pimpernel of cultural rescue, who after 1940 ran an emergency committee whose task, as he put it, was "to bring the political and intellectual refugees out of France before the Gestapo got them...I had no experience in refugee work, and none in underground work. But I accepted...
...face of it, Jennifer and her husband Jeff appear to have a perfectly comfortable income. Their combined salaries -- he is a machinist in the microwave division of Varian; she is a night clerk for a local food distributor -- total about $37,000 a year, middle class by any standard for a family of four. But since they are ineligible for most support programs, they face many of the same dilemmas as minimum-wage earners: the hard decisions, the small indignities and the rough edges of approximate poverty. "They say we're middle class," says Jennifer, "but this...
...dealing with a time warp," says UPI's Foreign Editor Paul Varian. "The British sink a ship and it takes forever to find out." But perhaps that is not all for the bad. As McDonald might say, see King John, Act IV, Scene 2, line 133 ("Do not seek to stuff my head with more ill news, for it is full"). -By Gerald Clarke. Reported by Maureen Down/New York and Arthur White/London
...Varian Associates of Palo Alto has also come up with an idea to tap the sun as a source of power. The firm has developed a gallium arsenide solar converter only one-third of an inch in diameter that can produce 10 watts of electricity from the sunlight reflected from a concentrating mirror...