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...Baker succeeds -- if, with American primacy intact, he can manage the transition to a new era -- he may be ready for the next step. "He's got the ace of diamonds of jobs now," says Preston Moore, a Baker cousin and close friend. "The ace of spades is still out there to get. One thing's for certain: Jimmy Baker won't voluntarily go back to drafting wills if he's still got his wits about...
Committee member Judith F. Preston, the coordinator of Greek life at the university, said that students have the misconception that a decision has already been made to create a dry campus policy. But the committee has not yet reached any conclusions...
TUCKER Francis Ford Coppola restores Capraesque would-be capitalist Preston Tucker (Jeff Bridges) to legendary life in a funny-dreamy biography of the can-do automaker who discovered that prophets often end up without profits when they threaten the economic establishment...
...eloquence. Edgar Mitchell, who flew to the moon aboard Apollo 14 in 1971, described the planet as "a sparkling blue-and-white jewel . . . laced with slowly swirling veils of white . . . like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery." Photos of the earth from space prompted geologist Preston Cloud to write, "Mother Earth will never seem the same again. No more can thinking people take this little planet . . . as an infinite theater of action and provider of resources for man, yielding new largesse to every demand without limit." That conclusion seems all the more imperative in the wake...
TUCKER. Francis Ford Coppola fashions a grand entertainment from the heroic efforts of Preston Tucker to market his 1947 "car of tomorrow...