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...unavailable for comment yesterday, and a spokesman for his office could not confirm whether he had seen the letter. Other public relations officials said they had not heard of the letter, but several said they support Bok's views as expressed in the report...
Taylor has always tested limits. Older pieces (going back as far as 1956) included in the current program confirm the breadth of his skill. Le Sucre du Printemps (The Rehearsal) (1980) pits a Chicago-style gangster and his moll against gray-clad ciphers in a workers' state, concluding in a massacre. Private Domain (1969) exposes a beach full of muscle builders, sexual athletes and Esther Williams-style chorus lines. Orbs (1966) harks back to the wedding scene in Martha Graham's landmark Appalachian Spring. Here, however, the screwball marriage takes place in "Terrestrial Autumn," where a drunk polkas...
Although Andrew H. De1banco '73, assistant professor of English and American Literature, would not confirm this week that seniors in his department have encountered a tight job market, he did say that "there is a general air of anxiety about "'After Harvard, what?'" among English concentrators...
...exhorting his friends not to answer the writer's questions (Most disobeyed.) Only when Schaap had completed the body of the book late this winter did Steinbrenner finally agree to talk to the author about his life. Unfortunately, the postscript that relates their nine-hour conversation does little besides confirm what Schaap has already made obvious: that the 51-year-old owner has always been obsessed with his public image and paranoid about his detractors...
...confirm that the low-salt way may become the wave of the future, Morton Norwich, which converts millions of pounds of salt into dollars every year, reports that sales have dropped 10% over the past five years. But the company need not be glum. Sales of Morton's salt substitutes have risen 12%. So have the sales of other brands of table-salt substitutes. Store managers report NoSalt, perhaps because of its TV advertising, is selling so fast they cannot keep it in stock...