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...William Conway, General Director
...condor affairs. Some are threatening legal action to protect the big birds from their protectors. Says David Phillips, spokesman for the San Francisco-based Friends of the Earth: "Human interference has already pushed the condor closer to extinction. It's inherently too risky." Maybe so. But William Conway, director of the New York Zoological Society, points out that captive breeding has already saved the elephant seal, down to 20 animals in 1890 and now back up to nearly 40,000. It has also helped raise the number of whooping cranes from 15 in 1941 to more than 100. "There...
Both schools and finders say this is not done. Besides, says Atlanta Counselor Jean Hague, a former administrator at the American School of Paris, "we don't have the power to influence the schools." Explains George Conway, admissions director at the prestigious Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Va.: "I've never had a counselor push anybody on me. A misrepresented youngster probably would not do well here, and that wouldn't help the counselor's reputation." Some admissions officers say they do give weight to a recommendation from a counselor they know well and whose judgment...
...city is probably going to lose two state senators, seven state representatives, a Congressman and more federal aid than it can afford. St. Louis has also lost 24,000 jobs since 1973. Vincent Schoemehl Jr., a former alderman who was inaugurated as mayor last week, defeated Incumbent James Conway with the slogan: "Every working day Jim Conway's been mayor, one more taxpaying business left St. Louis...
...Living Legend, which he produced and starred in, has grossed $11,284,028. John Waters (Baltimore), who earned a cult reputation with the fecally funky Pink Flamingos, is going respectably R rated with Tab Hunter and Polyester. John Sayles' no-budget comedy, Return of the Secaucus 7 (North Conway), has earned $1.2 million in small theaters around the country. And a group of ornery independents have organized to show their films in a Manhattan art house. Viewers who might otherwise catch Caveman will discover 17 fiction features and documentaries, including John Hanson and Rob Nilsson's painterly Northern...