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...star, Ali MacGraw. Senior Editor Peter Martin and Correspondent Mary Cronin first met her in Hollywood last June. They were immediately struck, as Martin says, "by her great enthusiasm for life. She takes you back to the time in college when all the good romantic things were within your grasp...
...most singularly effective law officer. He seems, though, like a number of other recent and present public servants, to be seriously out of touch with many creative and constructive social (and political) values held by an increasing number of thoughtful Americans, and thus with these people themselves. True, his grasp of law-enforcement techniques and their generally fair means of application is admirable...
...sound of two brilliant artists conquering continents hand in hand has a magical allure all its own. But there is far more to these players than such allure. Today Jacqueline's cello playing is a marvel of tonal beauty and instinctive emotion, backed by a prodigious technical grasp. As aurorally mellow as the late Emanuel Feuermann, as powerful of phrase as one of her former mentors Pablo Casals, Jacqueline is one of the most eloquent and soulful cellists alive...
According to Pittenger, the committee is looking for a man who "has a grasp of what kind of institution Harvard is, and what the philosophy about football is here. We're looking for someone who understands and appreciates...
...plan has a major weakness in that it does not move far enough toward a market economy and gives central planners in Warsaw veto rights over production quotas. Some Western observers believe that Warsaw conservatives will stifle the plan in fear that the economy is moving out of their grasp. But most Poles remain hopeful. Some even believe that the plan could have important political consequences. "Certainly you cannot have economic reforms without some political reforms," says Mieczyslaw Rakowski, 44, editor in chief of the authoritative weekly Polityka. Rakowski, a candidate member of the Central Committee and a prot...