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...days a week in the political boondocks of Israel listening to ward heelers and party pros, Peres is also a studious, scholarly man who reads voraciously in three languages and writes poetry for intellectual relaxation. His office in the Labor Party's headquarters building on the Tel Aviv waterfront is usually swarming with admirers, foreign visitors and party hacks. Inside, the room is piled high with books in Hebrew and English (prominently including Hedrick Smith's work, Reagan: The Man, The President). A color portrait of his patron Ben-Gurion stares down from the wall...
...counselors in Houston, where 70,000 new jobs were created last year. Local radio station KILT now promotes itself with the message: "If you're from Detroit... you've found your station in Houston." Apartment agents have installed WATS lines to serve out-of-state callers. The waterfront apartment complex near Houston, where Anita Cousins lives, is dubbed "Michigan Manor"; at one point it housed 23 Michiganders in its 43 apartments. An odd coincidence in the 1980 census came as no surprise to Texans: Detroit had lost 321,841 people; Houston had gained...
...night gala for his New York dance company. The result was about as Russian as apple pie. In From Sea to Shining Sea, Taylor's 1965 send-up of American life, Baryshnikov played an office worker and George Washington, while Nureyev portrayed a workman and a Brando-like waterfront tough. During a pas de trois romp with Dancer Gwen Verdon, they hoisted her up onto their shoulders, then discovered that she was facing away from the audience. Said Nureyev: "The great thing about America is that you can laugh at yourself when things go wrong. In Russia...
...multimillion-dollar libel suit filed by a former campaign manager and personal attorney who was named in his 1980 book Go Quietly . . .or Else. However, owing mainly to the international investment deals he packages, Agnew is believed to have a hefty in come. He owns a condominium in a waterfront high-rise in Ocean City, Md., and a lavish home in Palm Springs, Calif., where he surfaces sporadically to trim his golf handicap...
...main impact on Eckerd's undergraduate program, however, will be financial: income from the sale and rental of the buildings could eventually surpass the school's annual yield on its endowment. If Eckerd's zoning request is approved, says the St. Petersburg Times, "the lovely waterfront site would become just another tax-sheltered retirement haven for the well-to-do." Amid local concern that the plan has more to do with real estate than education, St. Petersburg's planning commission has refused to approve it. That leaves the issue in the lap of the city council...