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...chairman and president, than the tough old pilot sprang a surprise: though continuing as chairman of the company, he resigned as president and chief executive officer in favor of his personable nephew, 42-year-old Robert E. Wieland. One Wieland plan to snap National out of its financial spin (it lost more than $7,250,000 for the year ended June 30): "Make it easier for the passenger to get his ticket and get aboard-and when he deplanes, get his baggage to him quicker...
...hadn't played golf," Boston Cardiologist Paul Dudley White once remarked of his most publicized patient, "he might have had his heart attack 20 years earlier." Last week, still practicing what he prescribes, the wiry Dr. White, 75, led 69 other Massachusetts bicycle buffs on a 16-mile spin through Amherst and South Hadley. Though his wife Ina, 59, fell out after eight miles with a defective bike, White himself finished his health-on-wheels grind still breathing easy, reassuringly told a world of guilt and angina: "There's no reason a man should not be active until...
...Swan Lake; Zubkovskaya takes a few brief steps and makes the leap with a rippling grace that is equally breathtaking. The Kirov's tempo is more often a stately adagio than a flashy presto, and the spectacular is always shunned for the stylistic. But as the visitors spin through their tour, audiences from Manhattan and Montreal to San Francisco and Los Angeles are likely to continue queueing up at the box office...
...lightly and without condescension, he can spin a whimsy for children, as in Brother...
...front and back to the hem. Jacques Heim's spiral silhouette whirls across the body with slanting and circular seams; coats are flat in front with voluminous gusts of cape. Guy LaRoche fits his dresses loosely, lets his diagonal seams gently tube the body; his sleeveless evening gowns spin to the floor, cut a low V in back...