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Amidst the excitement generated by the new corps of human hydroplanes who inhabit the IAB this year, one man's role in rebuilding the Harvard swim program seems to have been overlooked. That man is Pete Orschiedt, who in his brief one year stint as hard coach last year managed to round up all but one of the red-hot freshmen who have thrust Harvard onto the national swimming scene this season...
...bring a witness against the Mob to the trial on time. But only at the wheel, Witteman found, does the otherwise quiet and domestic Eastwood, who does not even bother with standard Hollywood equipment such as a pressagent, live up to his screen image. After a stint in the passenger's seat of Eastwood's Ferrari Boxer, tooling down those twisty Monterey Peninsula roads, Witteman admits that he was "scared to death." Most Eastern critics tend to dismiss the macho and mayhem films made by the two superstars as drive-in popcorn or worse. But Contributor Richard Schickel...
...reporting and a supple style, magically transform this vast, nearly unspoiled area into a state of mind. The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh edited by Michael Davie. One of the century's great novelists discloses incidents in his life (among them the death of a child and a crucial stint as a public school teacher) that he put to brilliant use in his fiction. Dispatches by Michael Herr. Combat reports from Viet Nam, circa 1967, fused with afterthoughts ten years in the collecting, conspire to make the war and its aftermath unforgettable. The Feminization of American Culture by Ann Douglas...
...Miss Lillian barely had time to unpack before she was out on the town in Manhattan. At a lunch celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Indian city of Jaipur, the President's mother, 79, gamely put on a sari. Miss Lillian never got to Jaipur during her stint as a Peace Corps nurse outside Bombay in the late '60s, but she couldn't resist the luncheon invitation: "I have nostalgia for India. I love it." So much so that she stayed on for the Jaipur Ball that night at Studio 54, a discotheque hastily redecorated to resemble...
From the completion of his own book last March until the beginning of his stint as an institute fellow in September, Price worked closely with Nixon out at San Clemente on his own memoirs. Price says Nixon's memoirs, which will reportedly net the ex-president nearly $2 million, will be "revelatory." A "substantial portion of the book" will be devoted to Watergate, Price says. "He's not running away from...