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...charge of our tour in Canton told us he was reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X. We started asking him to arrange a meeting with Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and Premier Chou En-Lai. They were the only two Chinese leaders we knew by name. We wanted to brag to our friends back home and we figured those two could tell us more about the nation's communist system than anybody else...
Last week it appeared that this unusual two-tiered arrangement, which Perot's associates Like to brag is an "innovative and very sound structure," was in danger because Walston continues to lose so much money. Strong but unconfirmable rumors were sweeping the securities business that Perot was seeking to merge Walston with another, sounder Wall Street firm. There were reports, too, that Perot's lieutenants had tried to sell some of Walston's branch offices to other Wall Street houses. Still another prevalent report was that some New York Stock Exchange members were urgently meeting...
...three weeks a tiny nation, suffering under the disadvantages of a sneak attack and of being outgunned and outmanned. bulled its way to within striking distance of both major Arab capitals. Now is that anything for the Arabs to brag about? I fail to see how this makes the Arab forces "able." I hope Israel does not reward Arab aggression with a return to pre-1967 borders...
These pessimists sell their advice through counseling services, newsletters and books. Like anyone else in the habit of making a great many predictions, sooner or later they are able to say, as they do now: "I told you so." Almost all of the scaremongers, for example, like to brag about having recommended that their clients buy gold coins or gold-mining shares, or make similar hedges against recession. With recent jumps in the prices of precious metals-gold coins have doubled in value in the past year-many of their clients have indeed made handsome profits. But the gloomy prognosticators...
Last night's senior dinner at Kirland was marred somewhat by a bunch of rowdy rowers from Eliot House who paraded around outside Kirkland in an inebriated state shouting "We're number one." The overbearing oarsmen had a right to brag as Eliot swept both the A and B intramural crew races yesterday from traditional rowing power Kirkland...