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...number who would actually come. "The ghosts showed up," says Middlebury's associate admissions director, Herbert Dalton. In addition, at some schools fewer upperclassmen are leaving to make room. The dropout may be fading out. In today's tough job market, observes Dartmouth Admissions Director Richard Jaeger, "there seems to be a growing sense of urgency to start college and stay in college...
More and more Americans are doing just that. They have discovered that they can usually buy Ralph Lauren shirts, Jaeger sweaters and Albert Nipon dresses for 30% to 60% below retail by shopping at off-price stores. Since 1979, sales at Syms, T.J. Maxx, Marshalls and similar outlets have more than doubled, to an estimated $7 billion. Industry analysts expect them to continue to grow at an average pace of 20% to 25% a year. Says Edward Brennan, head of Sears retail stores: "There is no question that off-price retailers are becoming a big factor in the industry...
Billie Jean King, who will turn 40 before her next Wimbledon, or the next Wimbledon, is approximately eleven years older than Chris Evert Lloyd, who is approximately eleven years older than Andrea Jaeger. Besides representing a tidy chronology of women's tennis, they were the forces marshaled this past fortnight on one flank of the Wimbledon draw, the side opposite Martina Navratilova, 26, whose only point of reference lately is herself. In seven matches averaging just over three-quarters of an hour, Navratilova lost no sets and only 25 games, defeating Jaeger at the end for her fourth Wimbledon...
...upset of Evert Lloyd had given King so much hope (and Wimbledon so much hope for her) that from the moment she was dismantled by Jaeger in the semifinals, 6-1, 6-1, the tournament became subdued. Several days before, King said breezily of Jaeger, "She looks so young, but she seems so old." Not unkindly, the reverse may be said of King, whose battle scars start at the knees. She retired once, for a year, after whining her sixth Wimbledon singles championship in 1975 (she has collected 20 Wimbledon titles in all) and stepped away again momentarily...
Evans finished her illustrious junior career last summer with a number 24 singles ranking in the national 18s. She has notched wins over Tracy Austin and Andrea Jaeger, and she continues to show the promise of her younger days...