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Harvard has, by leaps and bounds, upgraded its athletic program over the last four years. A dramatic facilities facelift has provided the University with badly needed first-rate homes for swimming, hockey and track. And the expected renovation of Briggs Cage, which will transform the Cambridge Dustbowl into a sparkling new basketball arena, certainly will give Crimson athletes access to a top-notch athletic complex (assuming, of course, that ancient Harvard Stadium does not crumble in the near future...
Like an aging beauty trying to regain her charm with another facelift, Sears, Roebuck & Co. is struggling to recover its longtime merchandising prowess. After flirting with fashion and trying to outdiscount the discounters, the nation's largest retailer (1979 sales: $17.5 billion) is returning to its tried and true, highly successful selling formula: aiming straight for the charge accounts of America's middle class. The artist picked to give Sears its beautiful new visage is Edward Brennan, 46, who was installed earlier this month as the second youngest president in the firm's 94-year history...
...typically believe in euthanasia for everybody over 65 or 70, but a great many would agree with Pudd'nhead Wilson that "it is better to be a young Junebug than an old bird of paradise." The American worship of youthfulness, which has made big industries of facelift surgery and the hair dye trade, may seem vain but essentially harmless. Yet it has a seamier side. One outgrowth of the nation's aversion to aging has been a tendency to look askance at, and often down on, people in the later years of life. The attitude has lately been...
...Jane Byrne really is. The Windy City's feisty mayor is given to impromptu press conferences at which she appears without television makeup. Embarrassed by the bags beneath her eyes that looked particularly heavy under bright TV lights, Byrne, 45, slipped into a hospital over Thanksgiving for a facelift. Reappearing in public last week, the mayor said nothing about her operation but was unperturbed when photographers rushed to record her new, more youthful look...
Spaulding also has praise for Silber--she says he attracted outstanding professors and gave the university an organizational facelift--but now she believes he should be dismissed. "Its's time for someone else," she adds...