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...Quaker forward Donna Berk slammed a loose ball past Katsias with 10 minutes left in the half to give Penn a 2-0 lead...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Penn Caricatures Stickwomen, 4-0 | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...buying binge, gobbling up disparate lines of business that ranged from luggage to toys to women's clothing. Now many are discovering that their eyes were bigger than their stomach, and they are getting back to basic areas of expertise. The latest to join the trend is Chicago's Quaker Oats, the breakfast giant. It will shed its nonfood division, the Specialty Retailing Group, which accounts for 6% of the company's $3.67 billion in sales. Acting on the same impulse, Northbrook, Ill.-based Dart & Kraft (1985 sales: $9.9 billion) had previously announced that it would split into two companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spinoffs: Crash Diet for Food Firms | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

Svetlana's trip came one day after her American-born daughter Olga, 14, left Moscow on an Aeroflot flight to London. She is resuming studies at a Quaker school that she had been attending when her mother abruptly took her to the Soviet Union. When asked what she had missed about the West, the girl gushed, "Just the whole thing." Nonetheless, she had nothing negative to say about the Soviet Union, describing her 18-month sojourn there as a "great experience." Olga's father is Architect William Wesley Peters, 73, who was divorced from the volatile Svetlana three years after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union An Endless Odyssey | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...week's end British diplomats in both London and Moscow announced that Olga, 15, has been given a British visa, and will return to Britain before the end of the month to re-enroll in a Quaker school that she formerly attended. There were no indications that Svetlana would follow her daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Changing Sides Again | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

Teammate Kristin Bland, playing fifth, toyed with Quaker Julie Price. Bland smothered Price in the first set, 6-1, and, without giving the Quaker a chance to catch her breath, blanked her in the second...

Author: By Barbara VAN Gorder, | Title: Netwomen Throttle Pennsylvania, 9-0 | 4/12/1986 | See Source »

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