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When the project is completed in three years, the 33.3-mile Seikan tube will be the world's longest underwater tunnel. But while construction workers last week shouted "Banzai!" and broke out sake, other Japanese wondered why. In fact, Yomiuri, Tokyo's biggest newspaper, dismissed the tunnel as "a white elephant...
...Auburn St. luncheonette has expanded to twice its original size, and the clientele now includes not only young ladies but also Harvard Square regulars and elementary-school students from the nearby St. Paul's. The pinball machines have been there from the beginning--Tommy says he holds the longest continuous license for them in the Square--but the area devoted to video games has burgeoned...
Tommy's Lunch is "a kind of cross- roads for a lot of different people," he said Other eateries may be older, strictly speaking--The tasty opened its doors in 1956, for instance--but Tommy's is "the real institution" and the longest under the same management, Dorfman noted...
...Degrading." A "futile exercise." With those brusque dismissals, Dirk Mudge, 55, a blunt-spoken rancher and politician, rang down the curtain last week on the latest act in southern Africa's longest-running shadow play: progress, or more accurately the lack of it, toward independent self-government for the vast and arid territory of Namibia. For more than three decades, South Africa has ruled Namibia in defiance of world opinion and United Nations resolutions. For the past four years Mudge and fellow members of his multiracial Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (D.T.A.) exercised nominal authority over local affairs in the territory...
...hammers to improve their putting game. Arnold Palmer, 53, gave it a swing, and at the Los Angeles Open earlier this month Johnny Miller, 35, and three other pros were all Basakwerders, at least on a few greens. Says Gene Littler, 52, who has been using the putter the longest: "It makes you laugh when you see it, but use it and you'll stop laughing." Littler has. He boasts the lowest average number of strokes per round on the pro tour for the past month...