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Sophomore miler MAUREEN GILDEA, and juniors GWENN GORMAN and PAM STONE were selected as the 1981-'82 swim captains at the squad's banquet Monday night at the European Restaurant in Boston's North End. Renowned for their gastronomic prowess, the swimmers lived up to their reputation as they downed unlimited quantities of pizza, chicken cacciatore, wine, and a specially-made pecan and chocolate buttercream cake... After the awarding of varsity and junior varsity letters and numbers, departing co-captains DEBBIE JACOBS and KATIE KELLEY gave out special honors to team members for their better splashes outside of the pool...
Laid on at a cost of $4,000, it was a banquet fit for a movie king: white and green pasta, chicken with mozzarella and prosciutto, strawberries dipped in chocolate, vintage wine. Francis Ford Coppola, 41, the director of the Godfather films and Apocalypse Now, had invited 100 journalists to inspect the most elaborate toy a movie-mad boy could hope to own: Zoetrope Studios, the 10½-acre Hollywood production lot he bought early in 1980 to make his own films and those of fiercely loyal independent moviemakers he has invited to join him. This, he hoped, would...
Under Griffiths, a tightfisted finance man with a devotion to the bottom line, RCA has been very prosperous. Revenues and earnings have more than tripled since 1975. Sideline businesses like the company's Banquet Foods subsidiary have been shucked off, along with the firm's Random House publishing arm. New and more sensible acquisitions, including C.I.T. Financial Corp., the $5 billion insurance and real estate investment firm, have also been made. At the same time, the company has revitalized its flagging television manufacturing business, and is now preparing for the launching in March of video disc recorders...
...assurance and a keen sense of what is appropriate for almost every occasion, be it a barbecue on their California ranch (top-of-the-line cowboy garb), a press conference (Ron may be in plaid jacket and slacks, Nancy in a preppie blazer and skirt) or a fund-raising banquet (business suit for him, cocktail dress...
...team's banquet last night at the Harvard Club, the players named this year's captain, defensive tackle Chuck Durst, the winner of the Crocker award, signifying Harvard's team's most valuable player...