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...investment-related income), pays rent of $15,000 a year for a handsome town house in Georgetown. He owns an elegant 40-room mansion in Atlanta, a $100,000 house in Calhoun, Ga., and a vacation home on Georgia's exclusive Sea Island. Nor does Lance stint on entertaining. In June, with his financial position steadily decaying, Lance and his wife LaBelle threw a star-studded party at Washington's Georgetown Inn for members of the Carter Cabinet, plus such other guests as Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger, Publisher Katharine Graham and Mr. and Mrs. Averell Harriman...
...enroll, 75% of them would-be doctors. Rejected by the 116 highly selective U.S. medical schools, which accepted only 15,000 applicants last year out of about 40,000. these Americans have been converging on Italy in hopes of doing well enough during the required six-year Italian stint to transfer to a school back home. "We would all have preferred to go to an American medical school," admits Steve Husecki, 26. a graduate of Indiana University now studying at Rome University. "It's a long way to come, and you have to learn another language and cope with...
...opener Peter Bannish, last season the starting first baseman for the Crimson and this season Park's top (and only) left-handed reliever, used this day to turn in his best performance of the year. The Crimson, on the strength of the southpaw's three-inning stint, rallied from a 4-1 deficit to overtake the Elis, 6-4. Offensively, Dave Singleton shone with a 4-for-4 day at the dish, but the big play was donated by little-used outfielder Bobby Jenkins. The speedy Jenkins, yet another one of Park's adept freshmen, singled as a pinch hitter...
...Thomson recalls he soon received "several nibbles" from Harvard and Yale to join the faculties there. But when he consulted Fairbank about the offers, Thomson says his teacher's reaction was only lukewarm. Thomson took this hesitancy as a cue: Fairbank felt his student should first complete his stint in government. But when Harvard's History Department approached Thomson again in 1966, Fairbank was there with open arms. "He felt it was time," Thomson says...
Like many of his classmates, Kubacki harbors a lot of indecision about his future. "I haven't found out what I want to do," he says. But he has his near-future worked out, and that includes a teaching stint at the Joe Namath football camp and a possible trip to Europe...