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Such criteria place John B. Fox '59, assistant dean of the Faculty, in the forefront of a very small group of potential candidates from University Hall...
...words could almost have been written by some early Christian hermit, forsaking the pleasures of the city for the austere spiritual life of the desert. Instead, they are the thoughts of a 20th century monk, Malta el Meskin (Matthew the Poor), who is at the forefront of a remarkable renaissance of monasticism in the Coptic Church of Egypt...
...same time, new agencies like the seven-year-old Scali, McCabe, Sloves are zooming to the forefront with a tough-minded style that stresses product features. The agency and its principals-Ed McCabe and Marvin Sloves-pitch for Volvo and have brought the brand name to the poultry business with fabulously successful ads for Perdue chickens. They feature a squeaky-voiced Frank Perdue telling consumers with mock solemnity that it "takes a tough man to make a tender chicken" and insisting that his birds are more pampered than the people who eat them...
Appealing as they are, ready-made clothes from the U.S. have yet to offer a serious challenge to the great European collections. Marc Bohan, 49, who for 15 years has kept the Paris house of Dior in the forefront of world fashion, has high praise for what he calls the Americans' "relaxed, sportive way of putting clothes together." However, like other Continental designers, he maintains that most innovations still come from Europe. Says he: "American designers work on ideas rather than invent them...
...four other justices, was unpersuaded. Mindful of the public "need for judicial redress of libelous utterances," Rehnquist held that Mrs. Firestone "did not assume any role of especial prominence in the affairs of society, other than perhaps Palm Beach society, and she did not thrust herself to the forefront of any particular public controversy in order to influence the resolution of the issues involved...