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...president of The Cynthia Stanton Memorial Cancer Council of Harvard/Radcliffe, Heidi A. Waldorf '86, who also coordinated the drive, said "We want people to realize that smoking is a dangerous game to play with...
...Waldorf estimated that 80 percent of the smokers she encounters want to quit, but have trouble finding the initiative. "People are afraid of gaining weight when they quit smoking," said Waldorf, so students in dining halls yesterday counseled smokers to fight the urge to smoke by substituting cinnamon sticks, chewing gum and low-calorie snacks like pumpkin seeds...
...explaining, "I know how unpleasant surprises are to me, and so I'm going to try to make it equally unpleasant for them." He is fond of the canape-and-cocktail aspects of the job. A bachelor, he spends long hours entertaining U.N. diplomats in his apartment at the Waldorf Towers and visiting their delegations around Manhattan. "I believe that in an environment like the U.N.," he says, "you get a lot more with sugar than you do with salt...
...York's cultural offerings has tested the resourcefulness of the U.N. staff, which was able last week to produce, on short notice, tickets to the opening night of Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera for Poland's Jaruzelski. New York hotels are braced for the onslaught. The venerable Waldorf-Astoria, well trained in the care and feeding of outsize egos (Frank Sinatra and Lee Iacocca maintain permanent residences in the Waldorf Towers), employs a "flagman," whose sole duty is to keep track of the 115 foreign flags that the hotel keeps on hand and to fly the right ones...
...level of debate on the issue of South Africa and divestiture beyond baseless accusations of racism, such as those recently directed at President Bok. Private luncheons with representatives of the South African government are certainly not the way to do this. Tom Firestone '86, Editor-in-Chief Lars Waldorf '85, Former Editor