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...with pride to a program he had used in California: sending flying squads of top businessmen into the state's agencies on missions against inefficiency. To tackle the problem at the federal level, Reagan appointed a similar task force early last year under the direction of J. Peter Grace, 70, chairman of the conglomerate W.R. Grace & Co. Last week the group made public its final batch of findings. Its pointed revelations of wasteful practices were greeted within the Administration with much of the awkward dismay a doomsayer might feel upon being told his prophecies are true...
...Major, Opus 16 by San Francisco Choreographer John McFall, 36. Lynne Taylor-Corbett, whose Great Galloping Gottschalk was a hit last year, has a moody new piece, Estuary; once again the performances, by Van Hamel and Patrick Bissell, burnish a dull concept. Van Hamel, a dancer of wit and grace, has an even murkier assignment in Jiri Kylian's Torso, a grim, roughhouse pas de deux with Clark Tippet...
...healthy profit before the summer is over. Screenwriters David Newman and Leslie Newman, who have worked on all three Superman movies, are canny enough to bring Pryor on early; he runs through his engaging repertoire of whinnies and grimaces, demonstrating an unexpected mastery of computers, and, with shambling grace, falls in with the film's light-comic spirit...
...they are only two heroes of Harvard's best athletic year ever. Departing with Allard and Fusco is perhaps the finest slew of athletes to grace the Harvard fields in recent memory. Graduating today is Adam Dixon, who helped bring a string of Heptagonal trophies to Cambridge for the men's track team. And Howard Sands, who turned the Crimson's men's tennis team into a national powerhouse...
Truth be told, the Wilton, Conn., native is one of the most exciting and strongest performers ever to grace a Harvard track. He is currently among the top middle-distance runners in the nation and has an outside chance at the 1984 Olympics...