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Some of the members are relatively well known. They include Katharine Graham, chairman of the Washington Post Co., for example, and Betty Ruth Hollander, holder of five patents in temperature measurement and president and founder of Omega Engineering in Connecticut. Also among the new members: Christie Hefner, 29, a corporate vice president and widely considered the hare apparent of Playboy Enterprises; Investment Adviser Julia Walsh of Julia M Walsh & Sons of Washington, D.C.; Sherry Lansing, president of Twentieth Century-Fox Productions; and Florence Skelly, president of pollsters Yankelovich, Skelly& White...
...high jump, Navy's Leo Williams, defending champ and NCAA title holder, set a new meet record, leaping 7-ft., 3 1/4-in Williams received the Outstanding Performer Award for his achievement...
Harvard record-holder Liane Rozzell--who returned to competition only recently--has a shot at taking high jump honors this afternoon, but Princeton's Sarah Chang will pose a stiff challenge Last weekend the lanky and lean Tiger was the tri-meet's only triple winner, taking the hurdles long jump and high jump...
Glemp, 53, the plain-spoken son of an Inowroclaw salt miner, is well prepared for that task. The holder of doctorates in Roman and canon law, he has a shrewd political sense that belies his squat, jug-eared physical appearance. Glemp apparently intends to pursue a cautious policy under martial law, putting moral pressure on the regime but avoiding inflammatory gestures that might incite violence and provoke a Soviet invasion...
...another troubled movie star in Paddy Chayefsky's The Goddess. Stanley still has star quality: when Mel Brooks, Hollywood's reigning zany and the executive producer of Frances, was told that she might be available to play Lillian, Brooks jumped on his desk for joy. Stanley, the holder of a master's degree in psychology from the University of Texas, looks at her role and says, "Lillian mixed her identity with Frances'. She was in love with this child, obsessed with her. When a mother wants a child to be glorious, the child is in trouble...