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DiPrete is not the only local G.O.P. candidate with a chance this fall. Five Republican women are running for high offices, including Arlene Violet, a former nun making a second bid for state attorney general. Violet's strong law-and-order platform has earned her the sobriquet Attila the Nun. Local Republican strategists have yet another reason to take heart: although Rhode Island was the only New England state to reject Reagan in 1980, a recent poll suggests that it now places the President in a dead heat with Walter Mondale...
...stuff does not have to be entirely destroyed to be threatening. Anderson says if the amount of atmospheric ozone drops by as little as 10 percent, enough ultra-violet radiation could probably seep through to be "extremely serious," and if it dropped by 50 percent, it would prove devastating...
...harmed by giant balloon-like umbilical cords streaming in the treetops and kept buoyant by ulterior fans. They are fascinating. The dormitories and other buildings given over to a "main street" of shops, a moviehouse, a beauty parlor and a disco have been redone in a profusion of violet squares, vermilion triangles and aqua stars piled chockablock on orange scaffolds beside pink-and-black-striped cardboard columns. Professor Stanley Weingart of the U.S.C. business school says, "I keep waiting for Dumbo the elephant to fly out." It does put one in mind of an amusement park. Although not Disneyland...
...Covering 120 miles of Los Angeles? Hanging from 300 different types of lampposts? O.K. Some of the brackets for the banners had to be different too; a real headache. Certainly not, you wouldn't want to use just any colors. Had to be magenta, vermilion, chrome yellow, violet, aqua. "Festive Federalism," the designers call it. (What does that mean?) Oh, sorry. Please go on. You were talking about construction: 3,500 construction workers at 67 different (sites, including Olympic Villages, places for the Games, training facilities, parking lots. That is, if the cars can get there. Gridlock city...
...hope that in-fighting will not discourage students from supporting divestiture. There is, at the center of all this, a moral imperative which should never be allowed to waiver from sight Harvard will divest. Jill C. Violet...