Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...investment portfolio, like most things at Harvard, is shrouded in mystery. Portfolio managers daily decide the direction of the University's investments, secluded from student demonstrators and outside interference. Like the gnomes of Zurich, they keep their decisions out of the public eye and help to perpetuate the myth behind Harvard's portfolio. They are cautious, conservative investors, seemingly unshaken by the moral and ethical questions students raise...
...short, the Crimson faces a very long, hard uphill climb as it tries for its first winning season since 1975. By Restic's own estimation, Harvard sits somewhere in the middle of the Ivy League, well behind the "top grouping" of Yale, Brown, Dartmouth and Cornell. It's not exactly an encouraging post position...
E.D.T.) Scheduled behind Laverne & Shirley, this Soap spin-off is one of the season's few sure hits. Unfortunately, Writer Susan Harris has not capitalized on her secure ratings position by creating a daring and witty show. Benson is another sitcom dedicated to the tedious proposition that servants and children are smarter than employers or parents. In this case the employer is a moronic Governor (James Noble) who hires black Butler Benson (Robert Guillaume) to run his household and, by inference, his unidentified Eastern state. Except for Benson and the Governor's unspeakably precocious subteen daughter (Missy Gold...
DIED. Sally Rand, 75, tart-talking blond fan dancer whose trademark routine-a nude vamp performing behind peekaboo ostrich plumes to the strains of Debussy -wowed 'em for 45 years; of a heart attack; in Glendora, Calif. She started flaunting her feathers and teasing her audiences ("the Rand is quicker than the eye") in the early 1930s, kept her 36-24-37 figure into her 70s by dancing every day, and claimed that over the years she had changed her act "not a whit, not a step, not a feather...
Joseph Nakash placed expensive local commercials ($6,000 for 30 seconds) on 60 Minutes and other news programs that he figured retailers and consumers would be watching. Explains Nakash: "Psychologically it looked like there was a big company behind Jordache. The strategy worked. I started getting calls from buyers." Now Jordache is shipping about 200,000 pairs of jeans a month, or $3.5 million worth at wholesale. Aimed primarily at the disco set, Jordache jeans are selling in 3,000 stores in many parts of the country. Like the stallion, Jordache is running away with business...