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...year, and the number of finders in the I.E.C.A. has increased from 15 in 1976 to about 60 this year. Not everyone is happy with their work, however. One Chicago headmaster contemptuously refers to counselors as charlatans who play on the anxiety of parents. Julia Whitcombe, a Los Angeles mother of two, took her daughter to a counselor. Says she: "He did his testing, took the money and came up with nothing." At Lake Forest Academy in Illinois, Admissions Coordinator Jacqueline Leinbach suggests that parents can save the fee by going to the library, consulting directories of private schools...
...Julia Phillips, 37, who won an Academy Award for The Sting, admits that she was using cocaine heavily while producing that other-worldly movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Hers is a terrifying odyssey from the front lines of the movie business to a retreat behind the white walls of her Benedict Canyon home. She is one of the few celebrities who will talk with candor about a close encounter of the worst kind...
...moment you see Indiana Jones walking through the Peruvian jungle with his leather jacket and snap-brim hat, zapping nasties with his bullwhip. Raiders ripples with confidence and intrigue. You simply don't have any more time to think. Cinematographer Douglas Slocombe, best known for more elegant films like Julia or Nijinsky, has shot the movie in a sumptuous style that is exaggerated and resonant without being too obvious...
...American gourmets after Carl Sontheimer, 67, a portly retired electron ics engineer from Connecticut, saw them at a French housewares show in 1971. Sontheimer soon signed an agreement with the manufacturer, Robot-Coupe, to market the processors in the U.S. under the trade name Cuisinart. Food mavens like Julia Child and Craig Claiborne immediately pronounced the machine magnifique, and sales took...
Grant was to die in 1885, of throat cancer, but in the agonizing process mustered his old soldier's strength and clarity of vision to produce his classic Memoirs. Mark Twain published them, and provided Julia Grant, finally, with security for life. True to Grant's own estimate of his accomplishment, the Memoirs do not mention the White House years. McFeely's own masterly work does, however, making those years and all the others in this stubborn striver's life a microcosm of the 19th century republic. Within it the biographer succeeds in making his flawed...