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...University officials, he is the consummate administrator: thoughtful, fair, coolheaded and decisive. They say those qualities have shone through in Steiner's 12 years as general counsel to the University, a post which during Steiner's reign has grown to encompass labor, personnel and police issues in addition to legal concerns. And they expect equally satisfying results from Steiner in his new capacity as vice president and general counsel, a promotion President Bok announced last week...
...that Harvard didn't have some fine individual performances. Andy Mainelli shone at right inner, controlling the ball in midfield scraps and setting up the other forwards. It was not for lack of opportunity that the stickwomen couldn't find the back...
...Richard Nixon stirred a pitcher of exquisitely dry martinis in the study of his Manhattan town house and addressed the topic of the moment. General Alexander Haig had just been rumored to be the top candidate for Secretary of State. Beneath the famous brows, Nixon's dark eyes shone. "I know Al Haig," he said. "He is one of the most ruthless, toughest, ambitious s.o.b.s I know. He'd make a great Secretary of State...
...mission was another NASA television spectacular, and Lousma and Fullerton shone as showmen. As Fullerton pointed his TV camera at such scenes as Arizona's Painted Desert and the snowcapped Rockies during one pass over the U.S., Lousma exulted, "This good old America, from sea to shining sea in just twelve minutes. It really is America the beautiful...
...Simon grabbed most of the Eastern's limelight. Harvard junior Shelby Calvert shone in a few events of her own. She stroked to tentative national qualifying times in both the 500-yard freestyle and the 200-yard backstroke, and anchored the Crimson's 800-yard freestyle relay team to third place...