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With Harvard's tennis triumvirate, the team had always been foremost, and Sands, who says he didn't expect that much when he first came to Harvard, says that team-oriented players are what has elevated the team in the past four years. "If we weren't" he says, "you wouldn't see the likes of Clemson coming to play Harvard today...
Karl Kaiser, director of the Research Institute of the West German Society for Foreign Affairs and one of his country's foremost strategic thinkers, suggested an answer: "Probably at the beginning the SS-20 was just a modernization program, but now with the debate in the West, I am reasonably sure that the SS-20 program has a much wider, long-term perspective behind it." Kaiser got wholehearted support from Alois Mertes, Minister of State at the West German Foreign Office, who said that both the SS-20 and the proposed counterforce, NATO's Pershing Us and cruises...
...dresses could make even a mermaid look like Rita Hayworth in Gilda). But one also and ultimately has befuddlement, an impression of satiation that dwindles only gradually. Ellin Saltzman, fashion director of Saks Fifth Avenue, points out very sensibly that "fashion shows are done for press value first and foremost, not for the buyers. I can't get word out there to all our customers that Bill Blass, for example, has all these great black dresses. But as soon as the press writes about them, I get calls...
Last night's Boston mayoral candidate's forum may have been an "educational experience" for the women of Simmons College, but for the eight candidates it was first and foremost a media event...
...power, essential elements of their greatness. As the Cincinnati Symphony's general manager, Steven Monder, puts it, "I don't think an orchestra has a good concert or a good season or a good couple of seasons and all of a sudden it is one of the foremost orchestras in the world. It takes years and years of a strong tradition, of building and experience." -By Michael Walsh. Reported by Lee Griggs/Chicago and James Shepherd/London