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...selection of a Pope. And last week, when the Yale Corporation announced a new president to succeed the retiring A. Bartlett Giamatti, there was little doubt the university had picked a man of very proper parts. "We had a rather long list of qualities we were looking for," said Cyrus R. Vance, former Secretary of State and head of the search committee, "and Benno C. Schmidt Jr. had more of them than anyone else." That takes in a lot of people, more than 400 original prospects...
Former Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, chairman of the 16-member Yale corporation and head of the corporation's presidential search committee, said that the 20 front-runners are divided into a short list of prime candidates and a back-up list, but declined to disclose any names...
Jullie Glucksman as David's girlfriend and Cyrus Sanai as Brandon also turn in entertaining and spirited performances. Glucksman excels in her role as David's flirtatious fiance, providing most of the comedy in the play as she effectively counterbalances Rupert's seriousness. Sanai's performance is also outstanding although it suffers somewhat for his failure to give any sense of Brandon's sinking confidence in light of Rupert's mounting suspicious. In all the case deserves congratulations for simultaneously providing quality entertainment and effectively conveying the theme of an extremely difficult script...
...forever." But last week Harvester's shaky financial condition forced it to break that promise. The Chicago-based company decided to sell its agricultural division for $430 million to Houston's Tenneco, an energy conglomerate. This means that Harvester, the descendant of a company founded by Cyrus McCormick, the inventor of the mechanical reaper, will abandon its original line of business. The divestiture will let Harvester concentrate on its profitable truck-building operation. Tenneco will merge Harvester's tractor line with its struggling J.I. Case farm-equipment division. By closing plants like Harvester's giant Farmall...
...successor is Sunday Managing Editor Michael Janeway, 44, who joined the paper in 1978 after a decade as a top editor at the Atlantic and a stint as an aide to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Said Publisher William Taylor, whose family has owned and run the Globe since its inception in 1872: "Mike shares Tom's strong commitment to tackle the problems of the city, and has a lot of his sense of outrage." Janeway triumphed in a two-year power struggle that divided the staff. When word circulated last year that he might be the heir apparent...