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1 Forbes sets party extraordinaire Nuts der a covered walkway twinkling with electric stars The tent was designed to look like the interior of a Scottish castle courtyard with the entrance guarded by two armored knights standing beneath a magnificent flower arrangement and the Forbes family crest The guests assigned carefully chosen places at one of the 106 tables were to dine on baked Scottish salmon potatoes and baby vegetables Gov Thomas Kean and the state's senior US senator Democrat Bill Bradley planned to deliver speeches Fireworks and a light show were to follow with dancing past 1 am to complete the evening can't tell you how much it costs but I can tell you that Mr Forbes is a man of unlimited dimensions and that's how we look at this party a party of unlimited dimensions" said Ruth Schwartz whose public relations firm coordinated the event Gala celebrates 70th anniversary Guests began arriving by helicopter and limousine at 6:30 pm then nibbled hors of cold pheasant while a kilt-clad army of 130 bagpipers and drummers marched down a hill and into a tent Their tunes were to include favorite Grace" About 300 guests had arrived by 7:30 pm including Miss Taylor who walked down a reception line shaking hands and smiling for paparazzi Wearing a white linen dress over a black bodice she greeted Forbes who was wearing a kilt Real estate magnate Donald Trump arrived in a black helicopter emblazoned with his name Also in attendance was television's Barbara Walters Plans then called for the bagpipers to beckon the guests to dinner in a second tent reached across a drawbridge and un Dm AiimtH Pmm FAR HILLS NJ Publisher Malcolm Forbes converted his 75-acre estate into a storybook Scottish village with bagpipers and simulated mist and moonlight to set the mood for Thursday's 70th birthday bash for Forbes magazine Organizers promised the party would send even of the Rich and Famous" host Robin Leach groping for superlatives The all-star guest list of 1000 people was topped by Elizabeth Taylor Mick agger White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker and Henry Kissinger Two 1 80-foot-long tents were pitched on Forbes' northern New Jersey estate for the occasion at which other guests were to include Penthouse Publisher Bob Guc-cione and Playboy President Christie Hefner corporate raider Carl Icahn advice columnist Ann Landers US Attorney General Edwin Meese and new CIA Chief William Webster Forbes: unlimited dimensions assooatedWe Kissinger honored Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wears the 1987 Charlemagne-Price award which he received Thursday in Bonn West Germany in recognition of his service to Europe BISHOP DESMOND TUTU says a concert will be staged in Los Angeles in September as a way of 'putting before the world a moral issue' racial oppression in South Africa Among performers committed to the project are PAUL SIMON JEFFREY OSBORNE and the FAT BOYS Museum sets auction of rare Audubon books TIm Associated Pmm BUFFALO NY The Buffalo Museum of Science plans to auction a rare four-volume set of John James of and expects to raise as much as $2 million officials said The books known as a elephant edition because of the 40-by-30-inch plates were printed in London between 1827 and 1838 with 435 copper plates made from the naturalist's paintings Each was then hand-colored by other artists using Audubon's original paintings as a guide and sold originally for $1000 per set 133 sets were subscribed to Nobody knows how many complete copies were actually printed but the highest esti- -mate would be less than 200 with only 139 sets remaining as of said William Loos curator of rare books at the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library which owns one complete and one incomplete set of best known work counts Stage-bound TUTU Staging concert keeps on logging miles for good causes The Associated Prsss AMARILLO Kenneth Wood says he was moping around and feeling sorry for himself when he lost his job in 1974 Two years later his son' Kenny Wood Jr told Wood to take a hike The senior Wood has been walking since He walked from Los' Angeles to Washington DC to celebrate the US Bicentennial completed 13 marathon walks since then earned the trans-United States walking record and is on his 14th walk-a-thon to raise money for charity His passion for this method of helping charities has earned him the nickname Wood 47 was in Amarillo this week as part of his current marathon the Steve Douglas Memorial Walk-A-Thon from Las Vegas Nev to Memphis Tenn The purpose of the trek is to raise money for the Dream Factory a program that grants wishes for terminally ill children Wood began his journey May 1 and he plans to arrive at Hospital in Memphis July 4 He spends his nights with friends camped out or in hotels where he has been offered a free room Warm receptions have been the rule rather than the exception Wood told the Amarillo Globe-News In Amarillo he stayed at an inn and had meals donated by the owner of the 76 Union Plaza truck stop ASSOCIATED PRESS The center of attention r- Members of the Puerto Rican group Gonzales Ramone Acevedo and Charlie Menudo (from left) Ralphie Rodriguez Masso hold press conference at New Rickey Martin Ruben Gomez Sergio York's Hard Rock Cafe Wednesday i Harvard prof judges doll contest PHIL COLLINS of the rock group GENESIS will don a cap and gown Sunday to receive an honorary doctorate of fine arts from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck NJ PRINCESS MARGARET of Britain completed the second day of her three-day visit to Hong Kong on Thursday with the opening of a naval workshop at HMS Tamar the British military headquarters ARNOLD movie rotes so far have involved plenty of action and little dialogue 'But then you slowly add on' he told Parade magazine 'You give them a little bit of something else something new You put a little more clothes on in each movie and show another side of you' TIm A-octeted Pmm CAMBRIDGE Mass Normally Robert Kirshner spends his days at Smithsonian 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Ooneml Number 884-2011 Expert recreates subway shootings TIm AMoeteted Pmm NEW YORK A ballistics expert at Bernhard Goetz's trial recreated the subway shootings Thursday saying one of the youths on the train had been standing when he was shot Joseph Quirk a retired police detective used four Guardian Angels to play the roles of Goetz's victims Evidence presented earlier in the trial indicated that Darrell Cabey who was shot and paralyzed by Goetz was Darryl Cabey havi been shot while sitting Slotnick asked Quirk during their question-and-answer session not from the computations I've made" responded Quirk who said he was paid $1500 by Slotnick for his expert Houston bank closes breaking Texas record The AMoeteted Pmm HOUSTON Texas broke its own national record for bank failures Thursday when federal regulators closed a Houston institution because of poor management and bad loans The state has now had 27 banks collapse this year edging past its 1986 record of 26 failures the most ever for one state in one year authorities said Nationally 82 banks have been dosed in 1987 Texas National Bank-Wcstheimcr was declared insolvent by Robert Herrmann senior deputy comptroller of the currency Deposits at the foiled bank which had assets of $275 million in about 1200 deposit accounts was to be assumed by Texas Capital Bank-Westwood NA also or Houston an FDIC spokesman said Member of Hie Associated Press I 4 I 1 4 I I.