History revisited: Diplomatic sources said Sen. Edward...

History revisited: Diplomatic sources said Sen. Edward Kennedy would visit the Berlin Wall this week, 26 years after his brother electrified West Berlin. Arriving in the city in June, 1963, two years after construction of the Wall, President John F. Kennedy protested the barrier in a speech and raised a vast crowd to a frenzy when he proclaimed, “Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner) .”

Propping up tourism: San Francisco’s tourism industry has sagged recently, and Mayor Art Agnos thinks he can help build it back up. Hizzoner, thrust into the national spotlight by last month’s earthquake, will take advantage of that new-found prominence by visiting Chicago, New York and Washington this week. In each city he will reassure tour operators and convention executives that San Francisco’s tourist attractions, hotels and shops are open and safe. “I really believe his presence will draw the media to get the story across that San Francisco is ready for them,” said John Marks, president of the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Tree publicity: The Indiana Tree Growers Assn. today will send a 6-foot, white pine Christmas tree to vice president Dan Quayle for his office. The growers declared that since they seldom get Quayle to Indiana anymore, they were taking part of Indiana to the vice president. Harold Kingma, owner of a Christmas tree farm at DeMotte, Ind., said a 6-footer is the biggest tree shippers would accept.

Success talks: New York fashion designer David Chu, president of the fashion firm, Nautica, founded in 1983, said he spoke no English when he arrived at age 14 in the United States from Taiwan. Now 35, Chu said he stuck with fashion as a career because his teacher told him to. “But I went back to FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology in New York) to take courses in marketing,” Chu said in Pittsburgh, where he was promoting his clothes. “I spoke no English when I first came here, but I knew if I was to be a success I must learn the language and know the business end as well as design.”