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...firm's internal troubles burst into the open, management pushed Perella to take its side. The vice chairman chose instead to take a hike, becoming the biggest name in a string of high-profile departures that have stunned Wall Street, leaving investors and clients to wonder whether more Morgan bankers will head for the hills...
...imperial palace last inhabited by Wilhelm II crumpled into rubble. The great dome of the cathedral on the other side of Unter den Linden burst into flames and then collapsed. One shell hit a riding stable in the Tiergarten park, and the horses went galloping wildly down the Kurfürstendamm, their manes and tails on fire...
Radio reporters immediately began broadcasting the news. On the floor of the U.N. conference, a Chilean delegate waved an extra edition of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin with the screaming headline NAZIS QUIT. The delegates burst into applause. Cheering crowds gathered in the streets of New York City and Chicago. An hour and a half later, President Truman called in reporters and announced that the story was untrue...
Even so, forecasters were not prepared for the burst of alarming signs that flashed from Washington last week. The most worrisome was a Commerce Department announcement that the gross national product had grown at only a 1.3% annual rate in the first quarter of this year. That was well below the sluggish 2.1 % estimate that the Government issued last month and the smallest GNP gain since the .5% increase in the final quarter of 1982. Noted Walter Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson: "The economy is pretty weak at the moment. We have...
...previous game, Harvard kept pace early with Bucknell (3-8), but failed to avert a scoring burst before the halftime whistle as it fell on March...