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...dresses a little more neatly and wears a few more white shirts and stiff collars. His principal aide, Hamilton Jordan, appears more often in a suit and tie and leaves his boots at home. Carter weighs a steady 154, and his bowling prowess has improved to 160-165 a game. He has had more of the White House trees labeled, and he wanders among them as friend and admirer...
Three Years Old District 65's organizing efforts began three years ago and have faced consistently stiff opposition from the University. Through a seriies of legal appeals, Harvard delayed a union election on the grounds that the Medical Area clerical and technical workers did not form a separate geographical unit and so had to seek representation within a University-wide bargaining unit...
...Young and Durine Alinova). Elegant, long-limbed and lean as a grasshopper, Bauer is easily the finest ballerina Boston's got. She is not a great dancer: the flow of near-perfect form is missing, and sometimes she moves with an awkward detachment from her body, hands and feet stiff as saucers. But unlike Laura Young, for example (who danced a typically colorless Princess Florise), Bauer focuses her interpretations with clarity and quiet presence, her body usually locating each pose right where it ought...
...stage of some of the work of Flannery O'Connor. O'Connor's shattering, unflinchingly perceptive short stories are among the small masterpieces of twentieth-century American literature: the play might be excellent, but if it's faithful to the original you ought to plan on a stiff drink afterwards. (Tonight through Saturday at 8; call 261-8894 for details...
...trip started off on a sour note when a snafu in the team's hotel reservations in Virginia resulted in shortage of beds and a poor night's sleep for many of the players. It was a tired and stiff contingent that headed for Wake Forest on Friday...