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Last year, "Stormin' Norma" Barton and Kathleen McCloskey often vied for supremacy in the butterfly events, with Barton usually eking out the majority of the wins. But now that Barton has hung up her goggles, McCloskey seems the clear favorite in the sprint fly events--perhaps even in the grueling 200-yard race...
Although the team is hampered this year by the absence of 11 veterans, including stellar freestyler Janie Smith and butterflyer Norma Barton, the holes should be more than amply plugged by the returning swimmers and the new crop of freshman talent...
...company fought back so hard that the NLRB cited it 22 times for violations of federal labor rules, and in 1977 a New York court branded it "the most notorious recidivist in the field of labor law." Stevens' image was also bruised by the 1979 film Norma Rae, which was about the drive to organize Stevens workers in Roanoke Rapids...
...spring that Kal Ruttenstein, a Bloomingdale's executive, saw how Parisians were snapping them up. "It's a lot of look at a relatively little price," says Ruttenstein. "It's for the young or young-thinking woman, the fashion or contemporary customer." Adds Manhattan's Norma Kamali, 34, one of the first of the major designers to dive into jumpsuits: "It's the reverse of putting an outfit together. It's not lots of pieces you have to coordinate. When you run out in the morning, you just jump into...
...politicians, philosophers and financiers. He discussed psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud, socialism with George Bernard Shaw, economics with John Maynard Keynes, law with Louis Brandeis, Utopias with H.G. Wells, painting with Bernard Berenson and the grandeur of Charles de Gaulle with Charles de Gaulle. He also played Ping-Pong with Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg...