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...Europe. The rate increase from 4% to 4½% raised the nation's basic interest cost-the Federal Reserve Banks' own charge for lending to their 6,235 commercial bank members-to the highest level in 35 years. The financial community quickly adjusted to that new bench mark. As the other ten regional Federal Reserve Banks followed the lead of the New York and Chicago banks in adopting the higher discount rate, most commercial banks boosted their own prime rates-the amount they charge top borrowers for a loan - from...
...first 10 minutes of last night's game, while Grate was sitting on the bench, contained some of the worst all-around play in the long, ignominious history of Harvard basketball. The Crimson sank a grand total of two field goals; only B.U.'s ineptitude kept the score...
Yesterday the Crimson squashed M.I.T. 17-10, for its third easy win in a row. Coach Edo Marion prevented a total rout by using second-stringers for two thirds of the bouts, but even the Harvard bench had little trouble clipping the Engineers...
Elegantly suited and vested, Premier-Designate Evariste Kimba sat on the front bench of the crowded Chamber of Deputies and tried to look confident. Three rows back, his predecessor, Moise Tshombe, tapped his foot nervously. As the Congolese Parliament met in joint session last week, about the only empty seat in the Palais de la Nation was the leopard-skin presidential chair itself: President Joseph Kasavubu, who could not vote anyway, had gone off to attend a memorial service for the nation's civil war dead...
With a nod and a broader smile than he usually flashes at such ceremonies, Chief Justice Earl Warren, 74, looked down from the bench of the U.S. Supreme Court and intoned proudly: "Mr. Warren, I welcome you to the bar of the court." And with that, the Chief Justice admitted his son, Earl Warren Jr., 35, a Sacramento attorney, to practice before the Supreme Court. Earl Jr. was formally presented to the Justices by an old judicial hand and personal friend, Washington Trial Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams...