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...Providence. That's Providence, Rhode Island. That's where the 1986 Final Four will meet. The games are scheduled for the Providence Civic Center. The semifinals are March 27 and March 28. The consolation and final are held on Saturday, March...
Duncan has also participated in or helped run five TIME Newstours, in which corporate, civic and academic leaders are invited to travel as TIME guest journalists to countries that are in the news. Says Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald: "Dick's sharp news judgment and leadership have earned the professional respect and personal affection of his colleagues around the world. He is a journalist's journalist...
Tigerman's four-sided Roman arch is the most literally classical of the lot, although its instant statuary (stucco-sprayed mannequins) does madcap violence to any deeper notion of classicism. Graves' handsome copper-roofed arch is better behaved and more civic than the rest; it wants to be a real building. As for Pelli, the neomodernist turns out to be a cryptoprimitivist. His open-faced sandwich of long two-by-fours forms a kind of aboriginal latticework gate and seems Southwestern in the best sense: simple, staunch, serene...
...Excel is certain to intensify competition among makers of small cars. The rivals include Ford's Escort (base price: $6,052), Chrysler's Omni and Horizon ($6,209), the Toyota Tercel ($5,598), the Nissan Sentra ($5,649) and the Honda Civic ($5,649). Admits one Detroit executive: "The Excel will be a formidable competitor for everybody in the low end of the market...
...colonial overlord is still firmly fixed in the minds of many Filipinos. Any direct threats against a Philippine government, even one that had rigged an election, would be widely resented. But Marcos is also on notice that he cannot count on any U.S. support whatsoever in case of civic upheaval brought on by voter fraud. Nor is it likely that either domestic or international business confidence in the Philippines would return to normal with a cloud of that magnitude hanging over the political horizon...