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2A The Cedar Rapids Gazette: August 28, 1988 THE NEWS' Decorating the dorm Few college students are minimalist when it comes to room decor. College dormitories and off-campus -apartments feature the more-is-better look. The effect is chaotic, but comfortable. 6 6 Bookstore gears up The Iowa Memorial Union's University Bookstore is set for the annual onslaught. Hundreds of books are stacked 7 feet tall and 20 cash registers await.

In two weeks, all will be normal again. Iowa Today, page 18A. Lifestyle, page IF. Jt Energy fadeout If you don't eat right late afternoon can bring a 4 o'clock slump. If you try to beat it with coffee or soda you may be doing more harm than good.

Parade. In the market for love If you want to meet someone, try the supermarket, says Shellie Fraddin. Love can blossom in fruits and vegetables if you find the right clues in their shopping cart, she says. If not, at least you get your shopping done. Lifestyle, page 2F.

Outguessing the weather Bob Bergland, former secretary of agriculture, says nothing much has changed in farming since the seven years of famine recorded in the Bible. Modern agricultural programs, like acreage setaside, depend to a great degree on outguessing the weather. Money, page 1C. Clubs, lodges The Gazette offers a directory describing C.R. area clubs and lodges.

Lifestyle, page 6F. I U.UPWIIJII From bottom to Plaza The new Collins Plaza Hotel and Convention Center will open quietly Nothing sweet or phony You get the feeling film legend Lauren Bacall abhors -anything phonyand sweet. Not what you might call a -nextmonthrjusttheway Selling South Str New York City's South Street Seaport is a prime destination for tourists. Diverse and fun to visit, it offers nautical vistas, trendy shopping, restaurants and museum ships. Leisure, page IE.

general manager Tom Dwyer began his career. Once a busboy, Dwyer now has experience that should keep this from being a Mickey Mouse operation. Money, page 1C. warm person, she remains smart, brittle, funny and good-hearted. And she's just completed her 20th movie, many of them top-notch classics.

Leisure, page IE. Chicago blacks hold parley Trip is an advertisement for avoiding New York We went to New York City last week, my wife and to celebrate our 31st wedding anniversary. It seemed a good idea at the time. And it was, sort of, even though the nightly rate of our hotel room was about the same as the monthly payment on our first apartment and our anniversary meal at a good restaurant cost as much as my first car. You're only middle-aged once.

I go to New York fairly often, perhaps four or five times a year, and each time it seems to get a little harder, a little more 1 expensive, a little less welcoming. It was once possible to imagine a lower-middle class life lived in Manhattan, a small apartment for cheap in a shabby but charming neighborhood. No more. A one-room apartment that might bring $150-a-month in most Iowa towns will now sell as a condominium for $150,000 in Manhattan. To do better than that you have to move to one of the outer boroughs and face a wrenching subway commute to and from work or risk your well-being living in a slum.

Even the slums are disappearing from the lower half of Manhattan. They are being reclaimed by young couples who make enormous amounts of money and spend most of it on -the privilege of livingln Manhattan: That's good in one way; the city looks better than it did when I began going there. Give yuppies their due: they're clean. But it's become a less diverse, less interesting city at least the part you're safe in and less friendly. I've always thought New York got a bad rap for being unfriendly.

It was often brusque and that could be intimidating, but through the years I found New Yorkers pretty much like people everywhere, warm and willing to be helpful. Until this trip. I spent one whole day walking around trying to talk to people. I went to museums, the park, stores, using ice-breakers like "Nice day, isn't it?" And "My, that's a fine-looking baby. What's its name?" I not only didn't start a conversation, I didn't get a reply.

Not one. People of all ages, races and genders stiffed me. I'd make my little banal remark, smile and they'd look through me or past me away from me. I did this perhaps 10 times during the day and nobody said so much as "uh-huh." It might be me, I don't know, but I don't think so. I think that daily life in Manhattan has become so unpleasant that people are sealing themselves off from it; they're protecting themselves against experiences they can't control.

Why talk to a stranger, he might be a creep, he might be a con-man, he might be trying to steal your apartment. Besides, who has the time? Making it in New York is a full-time job. WHILE WE WERE THERE my wife went to a movie with some friends. About 20 minutes into the showing the film broke and the screen went white. After a long delay it began again, then broke again.

It happened a third time. So my wife, along with most of the other patrons, demanded her money back. "We cannot give you your money back," said a young woman who answered to the title, manager. "It is against the rules. We can only give you tickets for future performances of this film." "When is the film scheduled to close?" asked a patron.

the manager. "Will you be able to get this print fixed today?" the patron asked. "We don't know," she said. After a good deal of arguing and yelling and New York histrionics, which my wife and friends stood back and enjoyed, getting their money's worth from the local color if not the film, it was agreed that the patrons could get their money back if they filled out a "yellow envelope" the chain had developed for such emergencies. "Where are the envelopes?" a patron asked.

"We don't have any," the manager said. While this was going on a woman, oblivious to the dispute raging inside, walked up to the ticket window and asked: "Is the theater cool inside?" "We've got everything going full-blast," said the ticket seller. "I didn't ask that, I asked whether it was cool," she insisted. "We've got everything going full-blast," he said. "Can I go inside and see if it's cool?" "Not unless you buy a ticket." "If I buy a ticket and go inside and find out it's too hot, can I come back out and get my money back?" "No refunds," the ticket seller said.

"It's a rule." "Then how am I supposed to find out whether I'll be comfortable in the theater?" the woman asked, not 1 unreasonably. "Lady," said the ticket seller, "life is a crapshoot." Particularly in New York, New York. It's a wonderful town. 1 ll and eight months before the general election, the city's black electorate remains sharply divided. Sawyer is one of at least three black candidates likely to be running.

Some blacks are openly fearful that a split vote among rival factions could lead to the election of a white. Sawyer has announced he will be a candidate in next February's Democratic primary, along with Danny Davis, another black alderman. Timothy Evans, a black alderman and formerly Washington's floor leader, has yet to. formally declare. So far no white candidates have announced they are running, but the name most mentioned for the Democratic primary is Richard Daley the Cook County prosecutor and the son of the man who ruled the city's powerful Democratic machine until his death in 1976.

In recent days, newspaper editorials and black leaders and white leaders alike here have condemned the meeting as a step backward for Chicago. The city's two leading black contenders for mayor did not attend. The fact that the meeting was being held at all underscored the racial anxiety that continues to afflict this city's politics as voters prepare to choose a successor to Harold Washington, Chicago's first black mayor. Since Washington died last year, the city has been uneasily ruled by Eugene Sawyer, a black alderman from the South Side whose alliances with whites on the City Council enabled him to be named acting mayor. Those same connections also made him the target of sharp criticism among some blacks.

Now, with only six months to go before the city is scheduled to hold a special mayoral primary Mayoral pick topic of meeting New York Times CHICAGO Nearly 500 representatives of community and church groups gathered Saturday at a South Side church and determined that they would settle on a black candidate to support in next year's special election for mayor. But there was a prerequisite: Only blacks were invited to participate at the meeting. "We make no apologies," said Lu Palmer, a black political organizer who arranged the gathering. Unless blacks come together themselves, he warned at the start of the meeting, "it could lead to the election of a white, and a reversal of everything we have strived so hard to attain." Driving test leaves 1 dead, 4 injured TUSCOLA, 111. (AP) A 77-year-old woman taking a driving test crashed through the wall of the examination stationp killing a woman and injuring four others.

Sandra Warnes, 43, of Longview, was killed Friday when Pearl Kamm's car jumped the curb and flew through the plate glass window of the building, said state police spokesman Bob Fletcher. Kamm, of Atwood, "put her vehicle in reverse and backed into a tree at the facility," he said. "She then put it in forward and maintained that her foot slipped off the brake and onto the gas pedal." The examiner in the car with Kamm, Mary Jo Fitzgerald, of Tuscola, was treated at a hospital and released. Kamm was not hurt. Also injured were Warnes' friend Donna Stutz, 34, of Longview, who was hospitalized; Wanda Orton, 39, of Tuscola, who was treated and released; and Robert Matteson, 43, of Villa Grove, who was cut by flying glass, Fletcher said.

Von Bulow mansion sold for $4.2 million Garri Kasparov "They are like godfathers" Chess chief wants champ to apologize LUCERNE, Switzerland (AP) The president of the World Chess Federation has demanded a formal apology from world chess champion Garri Kasparov for comments he made about the federation. The federation, FIDE, Friday released the text of a letter sent to the Soviet Chess Federation by FIDE President Florencio Campo-manes. Campomanes referred to Kasparov's "public utterances which sow discord and which insult and threaten." The letter cited several remarks attributed to Kasparov in talking to the press about FIDE, including: "My title alone will kill this organization," "They are like godfathers in the Mafia," and "There is tremendous corruption in FIDE." "On behalf of FIDE, we officially take offense" to these statements, Campomanes wrote. "On behalf of FIDE, I ask for an apology from the world champion," he added. "Failing this, I propose to bring this to the attention of the General Assembly." That meeting, comprising representatives from the 126 national membef federations of FIDE, is scheduled Nov.

26 in Salonica, Greece, during the 1988 Chess Olympiad there. Campomanes' letter was dated Aug. 11. Kasparov and Campomanes are longtime adversaries. They exchanged angry words at a news conference in Moscow in February 1985 after the FIDE presidenTiwUad Kasparov's first title match with fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov "without result," leaving Karpov the world champion.

Kasparov won the title from Karpov later that year. PEOPLE NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) A judge has accepted an antique dealer's $4.2 million offer for the 21-room mansion where Claus von Bulow once lived with heiress Martha "Sunny" von Bulow. The oceanfront estate, Clarendon Court, is home to a prince and princess and includes the three-story main house, an 18-room carriage house, three fountains and a swimming pool. A New York judge overseeing the sale Thursday accepted the offer submitted by Glenn Randall of Washington, D.C.

The mansion, which was built for the owner of the Pullman Car is owned by Mrs. von Bulow, 57, who has been in what doctors describe as an irreversible coma since suffering a seizure at the mansion eight years ago. Mr. Von Bulow, 62, was convicted of charges he tried to kill his wife with injections of insulin and other drugs, but was acquitted at a second trial in June 1985. He stood to inherit about $14 million of Mrs.

von Bulow's Pittsburg utilities fortune, valued then at $75 million. A committee handles Mrs. von Bulow's financial affairs because of her condition. The judge's approval was needed for the sale. Last December, von Bulow agreed to divorce his wife and to renounce all claims to her money in a settlement to a lawsuit filed by his stepchildren, Prince Alexander von Auersperg and Princess Annie-Laurie "Ala" Auersperg Kneissl.

They charged that the Danish-born socialite had tried to kill and defraud their mother. In exchange, the von Bulows' daughter, Cosima, was restored as full heiress to one-third of her maternal grandmother's $100 million estate. The 20-year-old had been cut out of Annie-Laurie Aitken's will for siding with her father in the family feud. SCHOOL SPIRIT The Rev. Jerry Falwell said Friday he will lead the way as faculty and administrators voluntarily submit to the drug screening required this year of Liberty University's 6,000 students.

"All of us have agreed to voluntary drug testing at NOW! COMPLETE LIGHT BULB SELECTION! OPENING September 6 random and several of us at the top, myself included, will be drug tested," said Falwell, founder and chancellor of the school in Lynchburg, Va. TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT Actress Deborah Raffin has received death threats, and an actor once managed by her husband is under court order to stay away from both of them and not harass them, their lawyer said. Judge Lawrence Waddington issued a temporary restraining order Thursday in Santa Monica, requiring Steven Inwood not to harass Raffin and her manager-husband, Michael Viner, said their attorney, Jessica Kaye. Inwood played a driven Broadway director in the movie "Stayin Alive." Get a closer look I AV Donna's Dance Deborah Raffin Place JAZZ TAP SINGER GIVES BIRTH Diana Ross has given birth to i. i 1 BALLET AEROBICS 1 8 Week her fifth child, a boy, the singer publicist said.

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