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...year. Japanese Restaurant Tycoon Rocky Aoki, president of the Benihana chain, and Financier Takashi Sasakawa have leased the old Shelburne Hotel for more than $1 million a year and are rushing to remodel it into a casino by spring. Further behind is Bally Manufacturing, which has leased a baroque landmark, the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel. The company wants to tear it down, despite its entry in the National Register of Historic Places, but a local group intends to fight the plan in court...
...isolation of the gene was the second landmark in genetics this week. On Tuesday, the first known baby conceived in a laboratory was born by Ceasarean section in Lancashire, England...
...coin a phrase, the end of an era. Cronin's Bar and Restaurant, considered by many students to be one of Cambridge's landmark watering holes, has sold last week to the owner of the Swiss Alps restaurant, Eric Imhof...
...Defense Minister. The British High Commissioner handles foreign affairs and is chauffeured about the capital of Bandar Seri Begawan in a huge silver Daimler, given to him by the sultan. One of the few points of interest in the sleepy capital is a museum honoring Winston Churchill. Another landmark is the Royal Brunei Yacht Club, perched beside the Brunei River; with its whirring ceiling fans and overcooked brussels sprouts, the club could easily serve as the setting for a Somerset Maugham short story. Unlike Churchill, Maugham once visited Bandar Seri Begawan and stayed at the club, spending much...
Last week the court rejected Penn Central's argument that New York City's landmark designation amounted to a "public taking" of private property without compensation-a violation of the Fifth and 14th amendments. If the city wanted to preserve Grand Central, the railroad reasoned, it should...