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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Banks: U.S. banks and financiers play a key role in furthering investment in South Africa, providing advice and capital for U.S. corporations there. Recently, U.S. finance companies have organized huge loans to the South African regime. The Rockefeller banks, Chase Manhattan and Citicorp have been most active in this area; but Manufacturers Hanover, Morgan Guaranty and Kidder Peabody also play an important role. Between 1974 and 1976, Manufacturers Hanover participated in at least $730 million in loans to the South African regime and state-owned corporations. Morgan Guaranty participated in at least $490 million in loans to the regime...

Author: By Neva L. Seidman, | Title: Harvard's Share in Apartheid | 9/27/1977 | See Source »

...trying to restrain the growth of money; in consequence, interest rates are rising. Last week it let demand for money push the Fed funds' rate as high as 6¼%, instead of pumping cash into banks to stop the rise. Other short-term rates are going up too. Chase Manhattan last week led the way for other major banks in lifting the prime rate charged to their best corporate customers by a quarter of a point, to 7¼%, the highest in a bit more than a year. Three-month U.S. Treasury bills, which traded at 5.57% during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Faulting the Fed On Money | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...flair and his computer time-sharing innovation have made DRI by far the biggest in the field. The most reliable performance rating of the prophets is made by Economist Stephen McNees of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, who concludes that the three computerized econometric data firms - DRI, Wharton and Chase Econometrics - set the standard for accuracy among professional forecasters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: To the Prophet Go the Profits | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

Seferis's widow was very instrumental in getting the gift which Harvard had not actively solicited, Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development, said last night...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Renowned Greek Scholar Fills Vacant Position In Classics Department | 9/21/1977 | See Source »

While Shinnecock was hosting the championship in 1896, one of its members, 17-year-old Beatrix Hoyt, was competing in her first U.S. Women's Championship. Hoyt, the granddaughter of Salmon P. Chase, who was Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury and a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, won the title three straight times and then "retired" from competition at the age of 20. She never married and became a landscape painter and sculptor of animals...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The Walker Cup Returns to Shinnecock | 9/21/1977 | See Source »

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