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Robert del Valle Troy, Mich...
Midwestern Physicians. As participant sports became more and more popular in the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s, Abercrombie opened branches in San Francisco, Troy, Mich., and Colorado Springs, and it began dealing more in fashion. Other high-priced stores-notably Tiffany-successfully made the difficult transition to a broader market by combining friendliness with lower-priced items, but A. & F. did not move far or fast enough. As recently as the mid-1960s, complains a New York advertising man, A. & F. was run "like a stuffy club"-still catering to wealthy Midwestern physicians who take four weeks...
...telephone Governor Reagan about," Laxalt explained. "We decided he should be told personally." Sears flew to Los Angeles on Thursday night, July 22. On Friday morning he told Reagan and his wife Nancy for the first time about the Schweiker choice. That day Schweiker, traveling under the alias of Troy Gustavson, an aide, checked into the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles. He was told by Sears to meet Reagan on Saturday at noon. He spent a restless night...
...modern Olympic Games date from 1896 and were begun to promote sportsmanship and world peace. The original Olympics started in Greece in 776 B.C. and had their roots in the games staged by Achilles outside the walls of Troy to allay his grief at the death of his friend Patroclus. Now, just in time to coincide with the goings on in Montreal, two classicists and sports fans, M.I. Finley of England's Cambridge University and H.W. Picket of the University of Leiden in The Netherlands, have culled through ancient records, reviewed the writings of poets and philosophers from Pindar...
...much more convincing that her heavenly counterpart that it's easy to figure out why this Faustus opts for hell. Jenny Marre is enticing in several cameo roles--she plays everyone from Belzebub to a lisping, pregnant duchess--but she's a bit too pudgy as Helen of Troy...