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...last resort, officials compromised on a plan for the sale of some of the Fogg's artwork. But before they could implement the plan, Bok decided to cancel the entire project. That final decision, according to one Fogg supporter, was based on "a psychological funk" created by persistent and exaggerated worries over the national economy and past construction failures such as the Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), which exceeded original cost estimates of $50 million by about $180 million...
...President caught in a political blunder can always resort to a familiar gambit to diffuse criticism: mixing candor and contrition. That was the tactic adopted by Ronald Reagan last week as he tried to stem the anger caused by the decision to allow tax exemptions for private schools practicing racial discrimination...
...There will be a wreath-laying ceremony at Roosevelt's birthplace in Hyde Park, and a birthday cake will be served where he died, in Warm Springs, Ga., the mineral-water health resort that he regularly visited for treatment of his physical afflictions...
...Wall St. tickers, watch the interest rates, check the unemployment lines--proposes old remedies. Perhaps he means to divert attention from the already obvious sourness of supply cider, yet all signs indicate he really believes in his program. After the New Federalism becomes transparent, Reagan may have to resort to a familiar economic panacea, a different type of "bold stroke...
...estimated now at $30 million, she was early on dubbed "Sunny" for her sweet disposition. She did all the things that rich girls were supposed to do: attending finishing school, making a glittering debut and junketing to Europe. It was on one such trip, to Schloss Mittersill, an Austrian resort famed for introducing wealthy socialites to impoverished European nobility, that she met the proverbial prince. He was the resort's tennis pro, Alfie von Auersperg, an Austrian with a fabulous backhand, a fancy title and a sorry bank account. They were married and had two children, Princess Annie-Laurie...