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...NOTEBOOK: Crimson stalwart Wiley McCarthy continues to run despite quadricep injuries. McCarthy has been running hurt for the past three weeks and it finally caught up with the slender sophomore in Friday's meet. If McCarthy can recuperate in time for the EAIAWs coming up this Saturday, the harriers stand a good shot...
...published by New York's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. Its editor is Rimmer de Vries, 51, the most respected private forecaster of world currency exchange rates and trade flows. Of the dozens of international bank letters, none has a more influential readership (25,000 select subscribers) than this slender (16 to 24 pages) pamphlet, crammed full of statistical tables and carefully crafted commentary. Says Manfred Wegner, a senior European Community monetary official: "De Vries is one of the gods. You don't go to bed at night with out studying World Financial Markets...
...many of the save-the-coast people, a slender volume titled The Thin Edge, published in 1978 by Environmentalist Anne W. Simon, 66, is something of a bible. The book is an expansion of Simon's earlier No Island Is an Island, which dealt with the environmental ordeal of Martha's Vineyard, the island off Massachusetts on which she summers. In Edge, she writes: "In the last ten years, the coast's magnetic pull has become stronger than ever-more industry, more oil, more people, hotels, motels, boatels, more sewage, more waste. The coast is informing...
...upper four floors, Stutz in the early 1960s began selling the latest creations of young, and then unknown, designers such as Jean Muir, Sonia Rykiel and later, Mary McFadden. Then, in a move that shocked other retailers, she instructed them to design clothes that would fit only the slender. Bendel catered to women almost as thin as fashion models with dress sizes that ranged from 2 to 10. Instead of driving away business, the move gave the store a certain cachet. In 1979 Bendel earned $1.4 million on $15 million in sales...
...slender man dressed in a gray postal uniform rang the doorbell of an elegant $250,000 house in the Washington suburb of Bethesda, Md., one morning last week. He brought two special delivery packages for the occupant, Ali Akbar Tabatabai, 49. As the balding Iranian bent over to examine them, the "mailman" killed him with three shots from a 9-mm pistol concealed in a sheaf of envelopes...