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...walks a small man wearing rumpled double-knits, looking nothing like the head of a multi-million dollar operation. He is surrounded by a small coterie of staff assistants businly vying for his attention; we expect one of them to kiss his ring at any moment. A lady emerges to announce--with great pleasure and relish--that Mr. Stanley Kaplan is here in the flesh to welcome us personally...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Horatio Alger, With Chutzpah | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...meteoric stars of Cavileer's undergraduate days were Dave Guarnaccia and Art French, the legendary "lateral twins." The tandem ran out of a razzmatazz offense that was a type of antique multi-flex...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Statistician Bob Cavileer | 11/18/1978 | See Source »

Although she criticized the networks for paying former President Gerald R. Ford and former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 salaries for news for commentary, she defended her own acceptance of a multi-million dollar contract as a result of "supply and demand." Walters accepted no fee for last night's lecture, co-sponsored by the Law School Forum and Harvard Business School Women's Student Association...

Author: By Jill Friedlander, | Title: Walters Gives Network News Rave Review | 11/16/1978 | See Source »

...Sometimes I kind of wish I wasn't known as 'Sue St. Louis the soccer player.' It would be nice to be so multi-faceted that I might be called 'Sue St. Louis the great thinker' once in a while--or something like that," she says. "But it's nice to at least have some kind of status...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: St. Louis: Modesty Tempers Success | 11/15/1978 | See Source »

...basic idea for multi-eyed monsters is not new. Even while they were building Palomar in the 1930s, astronomers realized that if they wanted still larger instruments they would need less expensive technologies. Yet many doubted that it would ever be possible to get several smaller mirrors to scan the heavens precisely in unison. Explains MMT's acting director, Neville Woolf: "The problem is comparable to getting six headstrong prima ballerinas to dance as if they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Six New Eyes On the Sky | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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