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...rather than Gotham sophisticate, and four-letter words stud her rap. She avoids high-fashion designer clothes, prefers casual wear such as blue jeans, pants and sweater outfits, often teamed with a crazy hat and tennis shoes. She does not own a shred of underwear -just a head-to-toe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Making Magic with a Funny Face | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

...Tennis toes" [Aug. 13] are in actuality nothing more than an extremely mild form of what those of us who are mountain hikers know as "downhill toe jam." It is a simple result of the laws of physics. Increasing your body weight by a heavy pack, then compounding the effect of your toes hammering into the front of the shoe by walking downhill, brings on a far more serious malady than mere tennis toes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 3, 1973 | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

Basically, tennis-toe sufferers have little to be concerned about compared with the far more painful effect of the mountain hiker's occupational hazard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 3, 1973 | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

When Pusey departed to make way for Bok, he left behind a whole crew of administrators who suddenly found themselves unable to toe Bok's line. Bok went right to work on a thorough administrative housecleaning. One Pusey aide after another exited, waving goodbye to Massachusetts Hall, and saying hello to their replacements. Bok's assistants--the so-called "Mass Hall whiz kids"--have acquired a certain reputation during their brief tenure. Steven S. J. Hall, vice president for Administration and a former hotel administrator, has saved the University a great deal of money--Food Services and the University Press...

Author: By Steven Luxenberg, | Title: Derek Bok Sets Up His New Dominoes | 6/14/1973 | See Source »

...most striking of these new projects is film--both the production and distribution of it. In the past the Harvard Press has never been involved with film, but both Rosenthal and Hall feel that film has a definite role in the Press's future. "I had put my toe into film just a bit before I came here, and I got very enthused about it," Rosenthal said. "There are two possible ways in which the Press could get involved with it: tying short films to books and distributing educational films. Since we ship and deliver books, we could logically ship...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Harvard Press On the Way Back | 6/14/1973 | See Source »

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