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There was a more traditional celebration across Lincoln Center, at the Metropolitan Opera House, where the American Ballet Theater put on a 40th anniversary gala evening. A.B.T. does this sort of thing every five years or so for fun and fund raising, but this gathering had special meaning: it marked the 35th year that Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith have directed the troupe; in September Mikhail Baryshnikov will replace them...
Said she: "The 40th anniversary gala was genuinely one of the most joyous occasions this family has ever known. There was history, there was fun, there was sentiment, there was love. I never thought in 1945 that Oliver Smith and I would be directors more than temporarily. But that was 35 years ago. Those 35 years have brought me a kind of professional enjoyment that no sad moment, no difficult time, has clouded. It hasn't always been easy, but the company has grown and developed, and what more can any family...
...last week, after Ford gave up his own ambitions and Reagan's nomination took on a look of inevitability, a reassessment was under way across the country. The consensus was that although many hazards lie ahead, Ronald Reagan indeed has a chance to be elected as the 40th President...
Last December scientists at the National Weather Service noticed an unanticipated change in air flows. It was as if the skirt had stopped undulating: the curves in the prevailing winds flattened, and fewer chill breezes were blowing down from the north. High-level winds above the 40th parallel (near Philadelphia) were running at extra high speeds, while those to the south slackened. In effect, explains Donald Gilman, the service's chief long-range forecaster, the cold arctic air was blocked, almost as if it were being held back by a great fence, letting warmer, southern air dominate the weather...
...compiled by a group of custom tailors called the Fashion Foundation of America. The F.F.A. has a suspicious habit of cutting choices to fit names in the news; Jimmy Carter and Anwar Sadat shared top honors, although Co-Peacemaker Menachem Begin was considered too rumpled. This year's 40th annual roll showed a unique alteration: title of the world's best dressed man was awarded to Pope John Paul II, who is into cassocks, capes and red pontifical hats and shoes, rather than business suits and dinner jackets. No matter. The way the Pope wears his traditional raiment...