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...Theroux and John Batke, who teach creative writing here, will read from their work on Friday. Saturday, the Yale poet and Pulitzer prize winner Alan Dugan is scheduled along with Penelope Mortimer. If Mortimer's name sounds familiar, no doubt you've got the requisite subscription to the New Yorker. It's encouraging to see a student, George Colt '76, on the last day's list of speakers, and I guess Rita Mae Brown, who's associated with a kind of lesbian consciousness, its into the subterranean theme...
...Supreme Court upheld the conviction of New Yorker Samuel Roth, a purveyor of soft-core magazines and books, but drew...
...budgeted $2.5 billion. Only 4.6 miles have actually been opened out of a total of 99.8 miles, and the completion date for all lines is now 1982. At last Saturday's opening, thousands of Washingtonians waited up to two hours to ride the trains (left). One young New Yorker, Paula Allen, liked the Metro better than her own subway: "It's cleaner, nicer. There's no graffiti...
...After his fifth year and one Coty, John Anthony, 38, a New Yorker of Italian descent who worked his way up in the trade, will have retail sales this year of $6 million, and can say: "I don't want to go above that." He explains: "I design for a small, strong audience. I'm a drop in the ocean, but my audience is select. She's a celebrity, a movie star, she's in society, she's a President's wife. She may even be a working girl who doesn't mind...
...Carol Horn, 39, a Coty winner last year, also covers the world-Japan, Rumania, Guatemala, India-but on a budget. A native New Yorker who had no formal fashion training, she uses offbeat fabrics that "people want to touch," and makes inexpensive multipurpose clothes such as a crinkled cotton caftan. "My ideal garment," she says, "is one I can walk around the house in, toss over a bathing suit at the beach, dress up with accessories and wear out at night." Her Habitat ready-to-wear line did $5 million retail in 1975, its first year, and is expected...