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Capitol Hill grieved last week when Senator Henry John Heinz III, 52, was killed in an airplane crash in Pennsylvania. A day later, Washington was once more stunned, when former four-term Texas Senator John Tower, 65, and his daughter Marian, 35, were among those who died in a commuter-plane crash near Brunswick...
...strokes just before the closing credits. Their interchangeable theme songs reinforce the upbeat message. "Standin' tall on the wings of my dream," goes the ditty for Perfect Strangers, while Going Places celebrates the "wide open spaces for my dreams," and Family Matters opens jauntily: "All I see is a tower of dreams/ Real love bursting out of every seam...
Luckily, the house's facilities partially make up for its social fragmentation. True, the concrete doesn't make for the most beautiful setting, but the house--which has two buildings, a low rise and a tower--is quite functional. To begin with, the food is the best you'll get along the River this side of the Guest Quarters Suite Hotel. And if you live here, you can drop the word "double" from your vocabulary, since you'll have a cozy little (yes, this does mean little) bedroom all to yourself for three years...
...live in the tower (as most seniors and some juniors do), you'll actually have a single bedroom the size of most people's common rooms, with the catch that, well, you won't have a common room yourself. In the tower you'll also have the bonus of an unobstructed view of Peabody Terrace (with Boston in the background...
Flomenhoft, at 6-ft., does not tower over either of his roomates, but his 215 lbs. help to pave the way to the net. The third line center maintains his weight despite a craving for Diet Mountain Dew--Flomenhoft has 10 cases of the specially-ordered soft drink piled in his windowsill...