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...computer system may soon be outdated. "The basic technology is very good for the short term," says Priscilla Caplan, who heads the library office of systems development. "But nobody expects the next generation of library systems to look anything like...
Thank you and my congratulations to Mr. Murphy and The Crimson. Priscilla Johnson McMillen
Tied in with the tragicomic tale of Mickey and Bobby is the story of the shocks that an oil boom puts on a small city's system. As Doreen (Priscilla Smith), a local girl who tends bar at the Silver Dollar Lounge, puts it: "Gillette used to be nothing but a wide spot in the road. Now we got two shopping malls, a Kentucky Fried Chicken, and a Cinema One, Two, and Three." They also got drugs, the local favorite being crystal meth, and their share of bar-room brawls...
...have got into the act. His son Sebastian, 31, runs an industrial-design firm, and has created products ranging from baby carriages to hangars. Another son, Jasper, 27, is one of Britain's hottest clothing designers, whose clients include Princess Diana and the Rolling Stones. Sir Terence's sister Priscilla oversees the development of new products for her brother and still finds time to create such things as her own line of pots and pans. Oh, and don't forget Shirley Conran, Sir Terence's former wife. She wrote the steamy best seller Lace and has finished Savages, an equally...
...Conran bought Mothercare, a group of some 400 stores worldwide. Priscilla and Sebastian shook the dowdiness out of the Mothercare line, emphasizing colorful clothes made of natural fibers. "We wanted to get rid of that cynical attitude among mass-market retailers who say, 'Oh, these people don't have any taste, why bother,' " explains Conran. "People can only buy what they're offered, so their taste is made by what they're offered...