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...flow of business travelers to Union Carbide. A 250-room Sheraton now on the drawing boards will compete with the Hilton for Danbury's new and generally well-heeled visitors. "This is a city in transition," boasts Dyer, leaning back in a leather chair in his modern wood-paneled office. "It is becoming a white-collar community...
...caused concern in Western capitals with his spectacular victory and his nationalistic platform was Andreas Papandreou, 62, who, ironically enough, is a former U.S. citizen. Leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), Papandreou moved into the cavernous, wood-paneled Prime Minister's office occupied by his more moderate father George, who headed three governments between 1944 and 1965. With 48.6% of the vote to New Democracy's 35.9%, PASOK won a majority of 172 seats in the 300-member parliament. In a nearly symmetrical reversal of fortunes, New Democracy, led by outgoing Prime Minister George Rallis, fell from...
Elvis made 31 excruciating formula films in 13 years. One off-screen date, Natalie Wood, said he was "terribly conventional ... He didn't drink. He didn't swear. He didn't even smoke! It was like haying the date that I never ever had in high school." But for diversion, "the Guys," Elvis' entourage of good ole boys, would procure women. The requirements: under 18, under 5 ft. 3 in. and under the Elvis spell. Some starlets cooperated by forming threesomes, wrestling in their under pants while the excited King, sated on cheeseburgers, watched from...
Everyone else is out chopping down the forest, Bunyans, nay Weyerhauesers. But White is standing still and looking at the trees, separating the solid lumber from the rotted. And from a single tree he can find the whole wood--almost the reverse of the more common sort of writing, which takes the world and boils it down into a single character. It is skill--not passion, not energy, not vision--that carries White; for anyone without the skill, his method of approaching big ideas is impossible. He is a singles hitter, but his average is high...
October 22, 10:30 a.m.--Responding to a fire alarm, the security guard at Baker Library found that a piece of wood resting on a transformer in the basement had started a small fire. The guard extinguished the fire, and Cambridge Fire Department officials cut off the power to the transformer...