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...more apparently contrasting figures than the current presidents of Yale and Harvard. Harvard president Derek C. Bok's tall, lean and rugged build reflects his undergraduate days at Stanford where he played varsity basketball. In an interview shortly after assuming the presidency in 1971. Bok recalled sitting on the bench watching George Yardley temporarily set the all time scoring record for the Pacific Coast Conference. I did not play a starring role in college" he said, "but I was an enthusiastic participant...
...sophomore, though, he saw only spot duty as the back-up to Jim Callinan. And last year, he spent the season on the bench watching Callinan become the only Harvard back to rush for more than 1,000 yards...
...victory was to have been cause for national self-congratulation: the Los Angeles mayor would have become the country's first elected black Governor. But Democrat Bradley, 64, lost narrowly to the state's stern attorney general, Republican George Deukmejian, 54, who established a modest bench mark of his own: he is the first Governor of Armenian parentage...
...Inflation slowed to an annual rate of only 2.4% in September, a crawl by comparison with the 8.9% pace of last year. Because prices are rising less rapidly and the Federal Reserve Board has eased its monetary policy, interest rates have dropped sharply in the past three months. The bench-mark prime rate charged for corporate loans, for example, has dipped at some banks to 11.5%, from 16% in July. Investors are increasingly confident that this dramatic progress on the inflation and interest-rate fronts will spur a brisk economic recovery next year...
...first commissioner, the frowning old Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, was sent in from the federal bench to banish the "Black Sox" fixers of 1919 and restore righteousness. His law was arbitrary and final. Kuhn greatly admired Landis. The judge's successor, Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler, was a posturing "ol' podner." The man who followed Chandler, Ford Frick, was a reluctant leader hesitant to decide anything. Next came General William D. Eckert, "the unknown soldier," a strategic and forlorn disaster...