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...joining a predominantly male group of 18,000 Mormons. (Eleven Harvard undergraduates are out on missions this year.) These years of "dealing consistently with your feelings and with others" in northern France and French-speaking Belgium resolved Thomas's commitment, and he now explains the church doctrine with the polish of one who has many times confronted a skeptic...
...force. The Chicago Tribune, while editorially criticizing the city for its failure to produce a workable plan, called Marshall's solution "absurdly arbitrary." Grumbled Mayor Richard Daley: "A quota system is alien to America. We will fight this as long as we're around. What about the Polish, the Italians, the Jews-and don't forget the American Indians. They were here first." What probably irritated the aging (73) but still feisty Daley even more is that the decision to withhold revenue sharing, which is currently being appealed, has forced him to go begging for money...
...Polish Mime Ballet. A celebrated European company performs the comic mime The Menagerie of the Empress Phylissa, which combines ballet, mime theatre and gymnastics. One of the Loeb's special season presentations. Performances January 15 and 16 at 8 p.m. January 17 at 5 and 9 p.m., January 18 at 2:30 and 8 p.m. Rush seats...
They know that their act lacks polish, and they do not care a whit. The music is what counts. Anything else would be mere show business. Says Moloney: "We can go back to our jobs any time. We know exactly what we want and we're not going to do it any other way." The pop world may just not have seen the Chieftains' like before...
...relaxation, Holmes tends a collection of exotic fish, including a piranha that feeds on a goldfish a day. "It's the destructive time of year," Holmes notes. He himself will consume a light meal of 15 spareribs and nine chicken parts, his lifelong nickname is "Fats", and occasionally polish off heroic amounts of Courvoisier cognac in an evening. His hard times appear to be over. Earning a comfortable living like his three colleagues (exactly how much, they won't say), Holmes finds tranquillity in shooting pool, or playing chess on a board that reflects his expansive nature: it is three...