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When Avon, the queen of door-to-door cosmetics, bought Tiffany, the Fifth Avenue squire, in 1979 for $104 million, Wall Street's wise old hands wondered how the marriage would work. It did not. Last week Avon asked Morgan Stanley, its investment banker, to find a buyer for Tiffany...
...Wise old John Huston knows that...
About these and the many other pos sible metamorphoses, the wise critical deponent should say nothing, lest The Wrath of the Trekkies descend on him for spoiling the story they have been so eagerly anticipating for two years. What can be freely stated, given the fact that Leonard Nimoy himself directed the film, is that the fate of Vulcan's favorite son is treated with the highest seriousness...
Epps finds the change encouraging. He says the Class of '84 represents a new generation that is "less idealistic and more wise," a group which "strikes a balance between passionate commitment and practical use." The seniors are "less a part of the national and international struggle than their predecessors, college is a time to be apart from the world...
...firmly in place. After years of souring deficits, the Faculty budget is back to equilibrium and seems to have weathered the worst of this decade's inflation. During his last year in office, Rosovsky turned attention to a number of important long-range issues that you would be wise to pursue vigorously--undergraduate teaching, the status of junior faculty, and computers...