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...Modern Mountain Man. "On clear days, Mount Rainier seems to rise in our front yard," boasts Phyllis Shreve, who lives with her husband Jerry and son Terry in a white frame house in the bucolic town of Kent, 16 miles south of Seattle. Jerry Shreve, 40, a native Kansan, came to Seattle at 18 to work for Boeing, where he is now a quality-control inspector. Off the job, his passions are growing roses, fishing (he ties his own flies), hunting elk and deer with a 52-lb. longbow or old-fashioned muzzle-loader...
...about 40 miles from Los Angeles. Seven of eight female pairs that were trapped and marked by the researchers in 1975 were still together in 1976. In all of these pairs, one of the females adopted some male courtship and territorial behavior. In three cases, a female attempted to mount and copulate with her female mate...
Israel would abandon its claims to territorial sovereignty over East Jerusalem, including the Old City, and its new suburban settlements. The Old City, with its many holy shrines, would be turned into a self-administered, internationalized community-in effect, a Vatican of the Middle East. Mount Scopus, the site of Hebrew University, would remain Israeli, connected to the Jewish state by a strip of land. The rest of East Jerusalem would be linked to the entity and could even serve as its administrative capital, just as West Jerusalem serves as Israel's capital. In any formula, unhindered access...
...faculty; financial situation manageable, w/trim budget ($16,400,000) and healthy endowment ($48,900,000). Major challenge: must continue to attract (and hold) top-quality women to single-sex country campus of ivy-covered brownstone buildings. Salary: negotiable. Large stucco presidential home. An equal opportunity employer. Inquiries to Mount Holyoke...
Uncommon Women and Others, produced by Manhattan's Phoenix Theater, begins as a mini-reunion in a restaurant. Five Mount Holyoke College graduates (the "uncommon" ones) have got together six years later for one of those treacherous show-and-tell sessions. In flashback, the women return to their senior year. The college feels tremors of future culture shock, the expanding, unnerving world of women's goals and options...