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MOST OF THESE Harvard men, though, led quiet lives. Many of them are enjoying retirement in Florida or the upper reaches of New England now, and, in the mini-autobiographies they sent to James Lowell, their class Secretary, they often reveal the kind of good humor and intelligence that never goes out of style...
...staggering overdose of nostalgia does not bother Beurt SerVaas, 52, the editor and publisher whose name is the most unfamiliar thing about the new Post. A blunt, bouncy Indianapolis industrialist who has made a specialty of saving failing companies (and making millions in the process), SerVaas manages a mishmash mini-empire that includes three steel-forging plants, a chemical company, an employment agency, a business college, another small publishing operation-and now the venerable Curtis Publishing Co. (Post, Holiday, Jack and Jill). SerVaas picked up control of the company at cut-rate prices last year from the estate of Cyrus...
...clothes will accommodate an extra foot or more of girth. There are gaucho pants and bathing suits ($21), jumpsuits, dirndl dresses ($42) and hot pants ($10), all with expandable waists. Actress Mia Farrow, prior to twins, picked up the Victorian midi, Mrs. Dustin Hoffman bought the fringed suede mini, and Singer Diana Ross, Supremely pregnant, has toted home $700 worth of Madonnas...
...Spanish Main" intermediate school in "Tierra Firma," a thinly disguised middle-class suburb of San Francisco, where Herndon has taught for years. He appears to have tried every kind of pedagogical method, from applying a full quota of "reading" workbooks in a backward class to running a mini-free school where kids could come and go as they pleased. The results, though touched by humor and humanity, are disheartening...
...bazaar merchant, has managed in four months to put Israel on the diplomatic defensive. First, in a major shift in Arab policy, he announced his willingness to recognize Israel's right to exist in return for the restoration of captured territory. Next, he offered a kind of mini-peace on the issue of the Suez Canal as a way of getting that waterway into operation again and, more important, of getting Israeli troops off its east bank...