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...PUSSYCAT. A feline prostitute (Diana Sands) purrs and claws at an above-sex book clerk (Alan Alda) and proves that if you scratch a prude you sometimes find...
...curriculum. Departmental strength will be seriously circumscribed and the colleges will become the center of political strength within the broader university culture. At Harvard, the college has been losing a defensive war for two decades; at Santa Cruz, the colleges will have necessary prominence. In short, starting from scratch, says Stookey, means that in "each college the University will have what every large institution must finally devise; a place where experiment can occur without threat to the whole enterprise...
...born Charyk, 44, an aeronautics expert and former Under Secretary of the Air Force, oversees the company's technical operations. No other corporate officers have ever been handed so many varied problems so fast. They have had to handle the housekeeping chores of starting a new company from scratch, the public sale of $200 million of stock, a constant round of proposals and appeals to regulatory agencies, the duty of answering to the President and Congress as well as to stockholders...
Charm on Tap. But Robin Chandler Duke, ex-model, fashion editor, stockbroker and onetime public relations chief for Pepsi-Cola, had established a firm reputation along Embassy Row even before it became her job. It was up to Ann Hand, starting from scratch and a well-stocked closet, not only to prove that she could manage the tricks of a brand-new trade (everything from learning the names and faces of a hundred or so ambassadors by rote to making sure to seat Greeks and Turks at separate tables to remembering that the chargé d'affaires...
Gruesome Exit. Jean's most traumatic and rewarding chore was the difficult translation into English of Hermann Broch's masterwork The Death of Virgil. Begun almost accidentally, it took years, and required her learning German almost from scratch and suffering almost as many birth pangs as the author himself...