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...when there were many crucial swing states to visit on Reagan's behalf. Bush waited out a snowstorm to fly to the safe state of Iowa and campaign for Congressman Thomas Tauke, who had endorsed Bush on the eve of the Iowa caucuses that rocketed Bush to national renown in January. Much as Bush may have to stay under wraps, the vice presidency will give him many more chances to repay such past favors, rebuild the network of supporters he established during two years of arduous campaigning for the 1980 nominations, and otherwise prepare for a renewed White House...
Senkevich is a doctor who specializes in the effects of extreme conditions upon mind and body, and he spent a year in Antarctica researching his doctoral dissertation. That arduous experience brought him some renown, because his name was first on the list when Norwegian Explorer Thor Heyerdahl asked Moscow science authorities in 1969 to suggest a Soviet doctor to accompany him and four others on a papyrus-reed boat across the Atlantic. That Ra expedition, in turn, brought him to the attention of the producers of Film Travel Club, who hired him as host in 1973. The next time...
...Warsaw, Kaminska made her stage debut at four, began directing at 17, and, with her first husband, Zygmund Turkow, founded the Warsaw Yiddish Art Theater. She fled the Nazi invasion in 1939, but returned after the war to reorganize her theater. With Polish government support, her troupe gained international renown, but officially inspired "anti-Zionist" attacks following the 1967 Middle East war forced her to emigrate to the U.S. She remained active on the stage and in films (The Angel Levine) and never abandoned her dream of rebuilding Yiddish theater as a repository of Jewish culture...
...Three plant belies such notoriety. The General Motors factory in Tarrytown, N.Y., one of the plants where the company assembles its hot-selling front-wheel-drive Chevrolet Citations, has earned the reputation of being perhaps the giant automaker's most efficient assembly facility. Tarrytown's current renown is more surprising because in the early 1970s the 55-year-old plant was infamous for having one of the worst labor-relations and poorest quality records...
...Klemperer, he has also narrated Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder with the Boston Symphony Orchestra; next spring he will do the narration of Beethoven's Egmont with the New York Philharmonic. Klemperer remains fond of Klink. Those residuals still trickle in, after all, and then there is the renown. "Everyone at the Met is a Hogan's Heroes fan," he insists. "When I arrive for rehearsal, they say, 'Good morning, Colonel...