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...right to represent Israel in the Miss World contest in London. (The winner goes to the Miss Universe competition.) Said a contest spokesman afterward: "It certainly is a change of direction for the Begin family." Indeed, Grandpa may be a hard- liner, but Ayelet's lines are considerably softer...
...slight) slump since 1957--from 36.9 gal. per person in 1980 to 35.1 gal. in 1984--despite the introduction of low-alcohol brews like Anheuser-Busch's year-old LA. Wine growth, which experienced significant leaps in the 1970s, has slowed. One reason: the industry was late in developing softer lines. The Seagram Co. Ltd., the Montreal-based distillery giant, has become the second- largest American wine producer; it owns both Paul Masson and Taylor wines, along with some 100 other spirits. To woo the yuppie sweet tooth, many distillers are marketing unusual-flavor drinks much lower than liquor...
...paparazzo's flash ruptures privacy. A photographer's strobe can be softer: illusion backlit in short bursts. It is not glamour flashing in Stephanie's haunted blue-green eyes, though. Whatever she wears, however she holds herself, she seems to stare straight past the lens, resisting any easy truce...
Reagan's evolution from hard-line Soviet baiter to softer-line summiteer dates to an Oval Office parley last fall with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Says a White House aide: "Reagan's notion of personal diplomacy took off from that meeting." He was nudged along by Wife Nancy, a believer in the irresistible magic of her husband's personality, and by master Image Maker Michael Deaver. Both felt deeply that Reagan's warmonger image...
...other two reports were not much softer. The first, issued under the auspices of the National Institute of Education (an arm of the Department of Education), decried the loosening of academic standards and the increasingly vocational orientation of higher education. The report cited as evidence of worsening conditions several statistics, including declining scores on 10 of the 14 subject areas of the Graduate Record Examinations...