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Wednesday Aug. 23; 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Learning the ropes
Dylan Munoz, Lakewood, Pa., freshman, listens to some last-minute details at an orientation meeting on how to enroll and get around campus. The meeting was Sunday in the Kansas Union.
People
MONDALE SEPARATION: Eleanor Mondale, the only daughter of former Vice President Walter F. Mondale and his wife, Joan, is legally separated from Chicago Bears offensive tackle Keith Van Horne.
"We're definitely getting divorced, but we're on good terms. It was a mutual thing." Eleanor Mondale said in an article published Sunday in the St. Paul Pioneer Press & Dispatch. She did not elaborate.
They were married April 9,1988.
They were married April's, 1860. Her divorce from Van Horne, 31, probably will be final in December, she said.
Eleanor Mondale, 29, moved to Minneapolis in July after being hired by WCCO-TV in Minneapolis to be a lifestyles and entertainment
reporter. She will make her debut Sept. 5.
BIRTHDAY BLUES: George Shearing turned 70 and the Newport Jazz Festival turned 35, so perhaps it was fitting that the two anniversaryes were celebrated together in Newport, R.I.
the pianist and composer of "Lullaby of Birdland" joined singer Mel Torme in entertaining 2,000 people Friday on the lawn at the Newport Casino to kick off this year's festival.
The pair offered up the four Bs — blues, ballads, (Count) Basie and Broadway. A fifth B — birthday — also made the program.
a large birthday cake when the duo was through. Torme then led the crowd in a chorus of "Happy Birthday."
Shearing turned 70 last week, and the festival staff presented him with
FILM TOUCHES MEMORY! Actress Ally Sheedy, who plays a biased Southern white woman in the new movie "Heart of Dixie," said the film reminded her of joining her mother for civil rights marches as a child.
"I was not fully aware that every place is not like New York City. In New York, you make a racist remark, you would probably be dead by morning," Sheedy, interviewed recently in Atlanta, said in Sunday's editions of the Chattanooga News-Free Press.
Forbes marks 70th birthday with banquet and celebrities
TANGIER, Morocco — Magazine publisher Malcolm Forbes celebrated his 70th birthday Saturday, welcoming nearly 1,000 guests to Tangier's "party of the century."
The Associated Press
Resplendent in a Forbes clan kilt, Forbes stood in a receiving line shaking hands with each of his guests, many of whom were flown to Morocco from the United States for the weekend.
A fleet of buses brought the guests from their Tangier hotels to the Mendoub Chateau, Forbes' residence, and they lined up to go through security checks and draw lots for their assignments to one of six tents.
At one time the line of guests extended about 150 yards, and it took about 40 minutes to pass through the gates.
Hundreds of Moroccan dancers and singers entertained the guests waiting in line.
Officials of King Hassan II's monarchy cooperated in organizing security, and the city's main street was closed to all but party traffic for hours before the festivities began.
Uniformed armed guards and plainclothes officers were on duty early at the chateau's 15-acre garden.
The chateau, purchased in 1971 from a former royal governor of Tangier, is on a cliff overlooking the Mediterranean and the Straits of Gibraltar. The midsummer haze on
Most of the guests, whose names constitute a list of the wealthy and famous in the United States, were flown here in three jet planes, including a supersonic Concorde, from New York on Friday.
Saturday veiled the view of the European mainland.
Forbes took more than 100 U.S. and European reporters and photographers around the garden Saturday for a last-minute view of the arrangements, including six elaborately furnished tents set up for Moroccan specialties, belly-dancing, fireworks and dancing until dawn.
While walking through the grounds, reporters asked Forbes how he could give such a lavish party, estimated to cost more than $3 million, amid the poverty of Morocco.
His four sons and his daughter, Moira, posed for photographers with their father. Theoretically, the children were the hosts of the evening, but Forbes said, "You can't really describe it as a surprise party. My children are giving me the party, and I'm naving for it."
"You don't defend it," Forbes said.
"We probably all do things in our lives that are not essential. I don't feel guilty about it. I feel grateful we can do it."
He said he had no clear idea how much it would cost because "the bills are not all in." But he said the most costly items were the three jets.
"The catering costs considerably less than it would in the West," he said.
Catering manager Abdelkrim Tim samani said the total catering bill would come to less than $750,000.
One hundred sheep, 600 chickens and 1,500 eggs, went into the dishes prepared for the guests.
With four exceptions, the guests had to draw lots to determine who sat in which tent. Forbes assigned himself the largest tent with the other exceptions — the two sons of King Hassan II and actress Elizabeth Taylor.
Taylor appeared briefly with Forbes at the end of the press viewing. She has been a frequent companion since his 39-year marriage ended in divorce in 1985.
Her hair freshly done in a windswept colfure, she smiled and waved at photographers and, in response to their request, kissed Forbes three times.
The guest list included such world figures as former President Jimmy Carter, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, real estate magnate Donald Trump, publishers Ruppert Murdoch, Robert Maxwell and Katherine Graham, television personalities Walter Crendenkite and Barbara Walters, and former kings Constantine of Greece and Simeon of Bulgaria.
Taylor and Forbes spent much of Friday buying jewelry and colorful Moroccan kaftans. Forbes said his greatest birthday wish was "to live to be around to have many more of the things she gave me."
Briefs
BROTHEL WEDDING: The minister said it was a traditional Christian marriage, but the wedding at a brothel east of Sparks, Nev., took the prostitutes by surprise.
Minister George Flint, who owns a wedding chapel and presided over the ceremony in the Mustang Ranch's parlor, said the couple asked a friend to find someplace unique for the wedding and led them to it blindfolded.
Friday night's ceremony marked the third marriage for Ronald Scopinich, 44, and the eighth for Valerie Dodge, 47. both of redmond. Wash.
"It was a traditional Christian marriage, and there were no naked bookers," Flint said. "What's the big deal?"
Brother owner Joe Conforte was the ring bearer and gave the bride away. It was the first wedding at the brothel a few miles northeast of Reno, Conforte said.
"I think the girls were really surprised that someone would get married here," said a maid at the Mustang Ranch who asked not to be identified. "The girls stood around and watched it for a while but then had to get back to work."
Brothels are not legal in Reno and Las Vegas.
Under Nevada law, brothels can operate on a county option basis, and several rural counties do allow and license the houses of prostitution.
TOAST TOASTS: The toasts now come with toast at one trend Dallas nightclub, which has installed a new toast bar for its hungry hipsters.
The new Club DV8 offers toasted bread and more than 150 toppings, including the Woodstock Feast, which is topped with oatmeal and a psychedelic mix of three toppings of one's choice.
Some of the menu items provide food for thought, such as the Exxon Ecologist. That's toasted white bread, topped with sardines and honey.
LANDMARK BIRTH: Fort Worth,
Texas, zoo officials still aren't sure
what sex their new baby rhino is, but
they know its significance.
The 100-pound black rhinoceros calf is the first born under a program designed to save the species from extinction through captive breeding, and biologists hope it will be the first of many born in U.S. zoos and ranches.
The baby is about the size of a large dog and has a bump on its nose that will later grow into a large horn. It was closely tended by its mother, Ngwele, one of 10 black rhinos brought to the United States last
month from Zimbabwe
Ngweete gave birth Friday evening, and the event was immediately hailed as a milestone in the effort to try to preserve the species.
"It's wonderful," said Harry Tennison, who organized the shipment of black rhinos to breeding programs in the United States.
"I already have a name for it," Tennison said. "I'd like to call it 'Lucky' because of how lucky we are to have it."
Fort Worth Zoo director Elvie Turner Jr. said that the baby was healthy but that experts would not be able to determine its sex for some time.
Turner said he was considering naming the rhinho Harry, after Tennison, if it turns out to be male.
"Maybe we'll call it Lucky Harry," he said.
SKYDIVING RECORD: Seventy-nine skydiving women in Montgomery, N.Y., joined in a record-breaking chain in the air only a few hours after 73 of them had snapped the previous mark.
"I's raining maniac women," Dave Simons of Stormville said as the women parachuted Friday afternoon near the Orange County Airport nearly 50 miles northwest of New York City.
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