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...order. First came the announcement earlier this year that the magazine would move its main offices from San Francisco-America's rock & roll center at the time of Rolling Stone's founding a decade ago-to-the center of media glamour and respectability, Manhattan. Wenner then reaped another bumper crop of publicity when he cultivated the acquaintance of two pseudocelebrities (famous only by dint of their surnames). William Randolph Hearst III and Jack Ford, and gave them a magazine supposedly all their own, Outside...
When the Harvard hockey team hits the ice tonight against Boston University at Walter Brown Arena, the Crimson not only meets the lone undefeated squad in the ECAC (3-0 in the conference, 4-0 overall with victories over Merrimack, Providence, Dartmouth and UNH) but also the best crop of freshmen stars in the East...
After playing four games for B.U., the cream of the crop--Cotter, Fidler, MacLeod and Miller--have proved they can play, score and win in Division I hockey...
...main reason for Kirbo's decision is money. In 1975 Carter earned almost $120,000 from Carter's Warehouse, whose annual gross revenues hover around $1 million. Now harder times have come. Drought has savaged the nation's peanut crop, and business at the Carter plant is down 15% from last year. Billy Carter recently valued the business at $3.5 million, which would make the President's share worth roughly $2.3 million. As for an asking price, Kirbo says, "I'm going to get as much as I can. It will be strictly a cold...
...Long believes that the trend is longterm. He cites as evidence the fact that the slowdown in mobility is occurring in the more highly educated levels of U.S. society, the very group traditionally most prone to prowl. His point: if mobility is declining at a time when a bumper crop of baby-boom college graduates is appearing on the scene, the trend is probably a powerful one. It is a message that has already got through to many corporations. People who are willing to move wherever the company sends them, says Polaroid Vice President Joseph McLaughlin, "are at this point...