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Mahoney's latest bold stroke demonstrates that he moves as aggressively in financial areas as he does in promotion and marketing. He started his own ad agency at 28 before becoming president of the Good Humor ice cream company and later a top executive at Colgate-Palmolive. In 1969 he won an executive-suite power struggle to become chief of the diversified empire put together by California Businessman Norton Simon, 76, who now owns only a token interest in the firm...
...shade past the ingénue stage, but not quite right yet for classic leading-lady roles, Margaux Hemingway, 27, apparently has to take what comes in between. And that means teaming up with Elliott Gould, 44, in something called Over the Brooklyn Bridge. (In a singular stroke of good judgment, the producers changed the film's title from My Darling Shiksa.) If her screen work seems a little pale, the Hemingway magic returns the moment she lapses into her first vocation as model. Even when she dons men's clothes in Paris for a fashion spread, Margaux...
...highest mortality rates in the state were the Boston black ghetto of Roxbury and the working-class white enclave of South Boston, which had been locked in a bitter feud over school busing. Mortality rates in these two "death zones" are elevated not only for hypertension-related ailments like stroke, but for all causes of death. Even the rate of cancer among Roxbury men was 37% above the state average...
...while Fish is usually full of praise for the three senior teammates, they are equally grateful for his coaching. Sands says it's hard to say how much Fish helped his game, while Grossman says he's changed nearly every stroke of his game since becoming a mainstay of Harvard tennis...
...pages, Wiley and his love, whose name is Orra, stroke away in this manner. The story line that emerges concerns Wiley's ambition to bring Orra to sexual climax, an occurrence that eventually comes about along the following lines...