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...think I'm going to sit down and read my old speeches because I want to get a nap as quickly as possible." Symbolically, the self-declared champion of America's underprivileged chose an odd place to vacation for a week: the sumptuous seaside estate of New York Investment Banker Herbert Allen in Long Island's exclusive Southampton. But in another sense, the choice was apt. One of Mondale's main remaining tasks before the convention will be fund raising. His campaign spent heavily in the quest for a quick knockout, and the long ordeal left it some $2 million...
...loosening the church's prohibition on artificial birth control; Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, head of the Vatican Bank, who is said to have been scheduled for immediate removal; Roberto Calvi, president of Banco Ambrosiano, who faced ruin if his trickery with Vatican funds was discovered; Michele Sindona, the Sicilian banker who knew about the Vatican Bank's alleged laundering of Mafia money; Licio Gelli, grand master of P2, which is supposed to have boasted some 100 Vatican members; and last but not least, the late John Cardinal Cody of Chicago, who had been tipped off that he would...
...University yesterday appointed a prominent Boston banker as Treasurer of Harvard College, a post which also entails voting membership on the governing Corporation...
...Boston banker-to-be, who hopes to return to the Harvard bench again next year as the goalie coach, the only dark spot on an otherwise superlative record is a 12-0 embarassing loss in the finals of this year's Beanpot...
John Spooner '59, a writer and investment banker, recalls a deal he made with his six freshman roommates a quarter of a century ago. "Everyone in that room wanted to write a novel," he says. "We had one title that would belong to the first published writer among us: 12 Minutes to Park Street." The title now belongs to Spooner, who says he is still toying with possible storylines...