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Harvard's only other entrant in the meet was freshman Kate Wiley, who took 10th in the two-mile event with a time of 10:20, 4. Wiley's time pruned four seconds off Beckford's old University mark...
...market. Digital Equipment, Data General and Datapoint are leading companies in the minicomputer part of the business. Meanwhile, such firms as Apple and Tandy are running away with the small-computer market. Indeed, IBM was late to recognize the potential of personal computers, and introduced its first entrant into the field only last summer...
Getting into these gilded institutions is more than half the battle for success in France. American Psychologist Kenneth Keniston characterizes the time spent in special classes preparing for entrance examinations as a "period spent in the monastery." Each school has its own stiff requirements for an aspiring entrant, which are, says Keniston, "torture and mysterious rites of passage which test his qualifications for membership in the caste of sorcerers. Once they are accepted as full members, the other members will do everything possible to guarantee their success." Family ties also help, but only if the youngster has the brains...
...ornament and an exemplar, a rarefied high-wire act that calls for a lot more skill than a good sense of balance. Everyone waits for a false step, and there are even some who will shake the wire. Diana's older sister, Lady Sarah, was an earlier entrant in the nuptial derby, but was scratched when she remarked one evening, "I really enjoy being with [Charles ... but] I'm not in love with him. I wouldn't marry anyone I didn't love, whether he were the dustman or the King of England...
...royal look will doubtless set a standard for British models in TV commercials and other ads. Already the Daily Mirror has launched a nationwide Lady Di look-alike contest (first entrant: Lyn Hooper, 22, a policeman's wife in Leeds, Yorkshire...