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...beckoning potential buyers into the magic world of America's largest retailer. Sears has taken a fancy to Tiegs, embracing her in its catalog and TV commercials and identifying itself with her wholesome all-American looks. The chemistry has been sizzling. Just two years short of its 100th birthday, the once staid and conservative Sears is showing the friskiness of a teen-ager who has won a date with Tiegs. In fact, some people would say that Sears has become downright sassy...
...Hall of the People and spent an additional 40 minutes with Deng Xiaoping, China's de facto leader, who has elevated the recovery of Hong Kong to a national mission. By the time their discussion ended, Deng, looking tanned and healthy less than a month before his 80th birthday, seemed positively merry. "If we say that it was General de Gaulle who brought an end to French colonialism," he proclaimed, "then we can also say that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has brought an end to British colonial rule...
...kept her remarks brief and understated, as she did in all of her joint appearances with Mondale. Yet, in five minutes the audience whooped and applauded ten times and chanted, "Gerry, Gerry, Gerry." Said she: "I need you. We all need each other." By remarkable coincidence, Ferraro's birthday-Aug. 26-is the date when women got the vote in 1920, and is now celebrated as Women's Equality...
...former tavern, the Square has become the saloon of choice for San Francisco politicos, media types, sports figures and an assortment of others who can either shout above the din or do not mind it. Walter A. Haas Jr., executive committee chairman of Levi Strauss & Co., celebrated his 65th birthday during a surprise party at the Square in 1981. Last year Mayor Dianne Feinstein presided over a good-luck staff lunch at one of its dining room tables just before her triumph over a recall attempt. She received a standing ovation from the house as she entered...
...stick by its story that Aquino was killed by a hired gunman in a Communist plot. Justice Agrava did little to appease suspicions that her board has been too soft on government witnesses: at the end of Mrs. Marcos' testimony, Agrava asked everyone present to sing Happy Birthday to the First Lady, who turned 55 that...