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When IBM introduced its first personal computer about three years ago, it rented a suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria for a low-key presentation to a few hundred industry specialists and the press. Since then, nearly 1 million PCs have been sold, and the machine has become the recognized industry standard. So when the computer's third birthday came around last week, IBM took over the 1,620-room Loews Anatole Hotel in Dallas and invited 2,400 dealers, software publishers and industry consultants to show off its new personal computer...
This discipline is particularly evident in the books' capsule architectural notes (color-coded blue) on outstanding buildings, a subject often neglected by other guides. The NYC Access entry on the design of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel ("an understated and elegantly detailed composition") reports such esoteric details as the underground railroad station from which Franklin Roosevelt was whisked to his suite by a secret elevator. The books abound in learned footnotes and pleasant trivia (the pianist at the Waldorf's Peacock Alley uses an instrument once owned by Cole Porter, who lived in the hotel). New York restaurant critiques...
...Fifty is what 40 used to be." That may be news to mathematicians, but it seemed to make perfect sense to Gloria Steinem and the 900 or so people gathered at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria hotel last week for the Ms. magazine editor's semicentennial birthday party. The feminist fete featured speeches and songs by such liberati as Mario Thomas, Bella Abzug, Bette Midler, Sally Ride and Shirley MacLaine, who wished the birthday girl "success and happiness in all your future lives." Ride, for her part, recalled that her mother, after watching Sally rocket away...
...Harvard 50th Reunion class is similarly organizing The Train to The Game, which unabashedly offers. "Traveling musicians, Harvard-Yale programs at cost, bus service to and from the Yale bowl entrance, an absolutely delicious gourmet box brunch to include fruit and cheese, pate Maison, chicken breast Parisenne, Waldorf salad. French bread and petits fours, roundtrip surprises (some planned, some unplanned), return trip snack of clam chowder and croissant sandwiches, unsurpassed camaraderie...
...like to see ourselves as the Commentary of the Harvard Community. We are not knee-jerk conservatives," says Lars T. Waldorf '85, the newspaper's managing editor, adding that attacking The Crimson's editorial policy was not the Salient's raison d'etre...