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...contrast to the easygoing Motley, Pickering is a low-key but highly regarded career diplomat who has quietly glided up in the State Department hierarchy. Having been executive secretary of the State Department, a high post involving Internal management, Pickering served as Ambassador to Jordan from 1974 to 1978 and, since 1981, to Nigeria. In both nations, he won admirers. A senior Jordanian diplomat remembers him as one of Washington's best envoys to the kingdom, "a first-rate professional diplomat who always dealt with us honestly and intelligently." Beneath his softspoken, scholarly demeanor, Pickering can be personable...
...while Harvard might roll out the red carpet to wine and dine the returning members of its Class of '58 and their families. Radcliffe's approach for hosting its returning alumnae in which more low-key. Radcliffe has arranged its events so that members of all the returning classes can meet together for discussions and luncheons, whereas each Harvard class arranges its own elaborate events...
When it came, the celebration was surprisingly low-key...
ACCORDING TO MOST REPORTS, the two films dealing with acid rain--"Acid From Heaven" and "Acid Rain: Requiem or Recovery"--present a low-key, moderate account of one of the most highly injurious forms of air pollution. Acid rain, which results from sulfur dioxide emissions from coal and some power plants, poses a tremendous threat to the environment. Produced mainly in the Eastern U.S., it acidifies lakes and streams, killing fish and other aquatic wildlife, and has been found to cause excessive root decay to forests and crops and to corrode man-made structures. The human dangers of acid rain...
Agee's standing with Hennessy may have been doomed by a difference in style. While Agee enjoys the limelight, Hennessy is a low-key, no-nonsense executive. In December, Agee and Cunningham appeared in a PEOPLE magazine spread that included a picture of Bill on his knees before Mary. Asked about this by the Wall Street Journal, Hennessy said, "All I know is, I wouldn't do it." Cunningham is now a vice president for strategic planning at Seagram, the Manhattan-based liquor manufacturer. For the past eight months, she and Agee have been commuting between a suite...