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...great group of Harvard med students. After all, we came from a generation whose parents introduced us to their friend's children. Public school girls seemed to handle the stresses and strains of college social life better than the private school girls. That division existed, but did some-what diminish with time. College level work went better for many private school girls the first year, but many public school girls were very well-prepared all the same...
Nonetheless, the absence from the Los Angeles Olympics of such Soviet world-record holders as Pole Vaulter Sergei Bubka, High Jumper Tamara Bykova and Swimmer Vladimir Salnikov, and of the East German athletes who have come close to dominating women's track and field, will greatly diminish the luster of many events (see following story). True, the rivalry will be broader than in the 1980 Olympics, which drew athletes from only 81 nations to Moscow. Attendance at Los Angeles might equal, or even surpass, the high of 122 countries represented at the 1972 Games in Munich?though much depends...
...comes from a Teflon magic refuse to acknowledge his gains and exaggerate his failures. Mayors who feared that federal aid cuts would bankrupt their cities now run surpluses. The estimates by Reagan's critics that 3 million people are homeless proved to be overblown by tenfold. Such attacks diminish the true anguish of the needy and insult American intelligence...
Then, speaking of age, she said hearing is the only faculty she has had diminish. She possesses good eyesight, imagination and memory. "The memory is a well," she said, "united" with the imagination in producing fiction. "Whatever you send down it comes back up deeper." From down the street there came the sound of little girls singing, a Ring-Around-the-Rosy sort of lyric, and if Welty did not hear it, it was nothing she had not heard before. Comes the day she needs the sound of child song for a page, she will remember it, sharply. -By Gregory...
Such deals have aroused fears of a shrinking market for authors. Jeremiah Kaplan, executive vice president of Macmillan, sought to calm such worries: "This merger will not diminish the number of books being published by all our companies. In fact, they may well be increased. We admire the books that Scribner does so well. That is, after all, one of its attractions." -By John Greenwald. Reported by Richard Brims/New York