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Harvard's basketball team will have its last chance tonight to get an Ivy victory before exams. The Crimson visits Dartmouth, and prospects are brighter than they've been all month...
...William E. Chambers Jr., 47, will be operations-committee chairman. Cone himself will turn over his job as chairman of the executive committee to Carney. Though he will not reach the mandatory retirement age (65) for two years, Cone figures that it is simply "a hell of a lot brighter to get the new people in there and get the company used to them...
Cramer is currently working on a machine which would make it possible for a blind student to regulate the speed of the tape he is listening to. A brighter student could progress according to his own ability, unhindered by the rest of the class...
...balance, the U.S. gold picture looks brighter. The Treasury reported last week that gold stocks in September rose by $37 million, the largest monthly increase since March 1963. For the year so far, total U.S. gold reserves are down $450 million-they now stand at $13.4 billion-but the loss is much less than last year's $1.67 billion. Thus, the attempts to bolster the nation's gold and payments position, by raising interest rates and reducing capital exports for loans and investments, are showing at least temporary success...
...Coca-Cola has the familiar orange-flavored Fanta, as well as orange Cappy, which is not seen in domestic markets. Pepsi has a line of fruit drinks called Mirinda. The global market has few seasonal fluctuations. When cold weather comes to Europe and Japan, the sun shines all the brighter in Australia and Africa. Says Britain's Lord Watkinson, whose Schweppes Ltd. is also a Pepsi bottler: "It doesn't rain or snow all over the world at the same time...