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Preventive maintenance is about as unglamorous an expense as exists in the University budget. Understandably, the alumni and foundations would much rather endow professorships and build libraries; that's why you don't see a John C. Graduate '54 memorial rewiring, or a Wanda R. Alumna '40 honorary replastering. But few expenditures affect the lives of undergraduates more than those that determine the quality of the places in which we live. Harvard's House system may be its greatest treasure, and students fool themselves if they think many collegians elsewhere live in more congenial surroundings. But many of these lovely...
...John Leo. Reported by Robert L. Goldstein/Los Angeles and Wanda Menke-Glückert/Bonn,with other bureaus...
...After eight films, it is still not possible to say more than that there is no reason to think she cannot. Some of her movies have sunk out of sight, and one, Peter Fonda's Wanda Nevada, was never released. Director Malle guided her brilliantly through Pretty Baby, a film opulent of flesh but lacking the bone structure that might have made it great. She mugged cheerfully in a not very successful George Burns comedy, Just You and Me, Kid. (She says she wants to do comedy, but her mother, less sure, would prefer she stay with pretty pictures...
...write, direct and star in her own feature film; of cancer; in New York City. She had been married since 1967 to Elia Kazan, who directed her in her Tony Award-winning performance as the Marilyn Monroe figure in Arthur Miller's After the Fall. Her 1970 Wanda, a proto-feminist chronicle about a drab, desperate Appalachian housewife, won the International Critics Prize at that year's Venice Film Festival...
...cast, who knew that their director was ailing and hospitalized, had little idea of the severity of his sickness. The news that Champion was dead poleaxed them. Wanda Richert wept in Merrick's arms, and, after a moment of stunned silence. Jerry Orbach called backstage to the house manager, "Bring it in, bring...