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...delighted by its speed, if not its comfort. For another thing, a ban on the Concorde would betray the American tradition of welcoming rugged but fair competition in the marketplace. The staggering development and operating costs of the Concorde may make the plane one of history's landmark commercial disasters, but if Paris and London are willing to keep subsidizing it they are entitled to a chance to serve the U.S.'s major travel market...
France's late President first announced in 1969 that he would give Paris "a landmark of our time." A connoisseur and collector of art, Pompidou was dismayed by Paris' gradual loss of stature as an art capital. He dreamed of a building that would be "both a museum and a center for creation, where the plastic arts would exist alongside music, cinema, books, audio-visual research. Its creativity would obviously be modern and continually changing." The location: Beaubourg, once a bourgeois neighborhood between the Bastille and Les Halles, but for the past century a decaying slum. Specifically, planners...
Although the Task Force on College Life wants to turn Memorial Hall into a beer hall and at least one member of the Planning Office wants the building used as a center for performing arts, the present construction project on the century old campus landmark will only repair the leaky roof, Harold L. Goyette, director of the Planning Office, said last week...
...herself, demanded that the actor ante up a solid million-including shares in film rights, a home in Malibu, and an island in the South Pacific. Though Marvin denied that such an agreement was ever made, the California court ruled in favor of his 36-year-old ex. The landmark decision, handed down last week, states that cohabitation without marriage gives both parties the right to share property if they separate. Said Michelle's lawyer, Marvin Mitchelson: "This decision will open up the courthouse door to everyone living together." The door better be revolving. According to surveys in California...
...landmark meeting in Detroit in October, delegates from U.S. dioceses boldly asked their bishops to renounce the 1884 decree and welcome back the remarried. That appears unlikely, but Dozier's experiment-he scheduled a second ceremony this week in Jackson. Tenn.-may inspire a series of reconciliation days in other parts of the nation...