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Guards stormed into the chancellery and blindfolded and handcuffed the Americans. Jones and four others were flown to Mashhad near the Soviet border. They spent one night in an abandoned house, then two nights in a hotel, where they had to climb ten flights of stairs to their rooms. The next stop was an Iranian trade mission building. By June 26 they were back in Tehran, in a prison. Finally, on Dec. 17, Jones and his comrades were moved to a guesthouse in Tehran...
...were on their feet, cheering. Malraux remembered De Gaulle waving his long arms and crying, "Bravo, magnifique!" It is said that De Gaulle never forgot the images of glory he found that evening in Abel Gance's epic reconstruction of another young soldier's climb to greatness, Napoleon...
Shortly before faceoff time tonight, Brian Petrovek of the ECAC will climb eight flights of stairs in an abandoned Causeway St. warehouse and officially throw the 1980-81 season records of the Harvard, B.C., B.U. and Northeastern hockey teams out an open window. Or so some people would have you believe...
...Meyers: "The long-term trend is for growth in the export trade and for relatively higher prices." Meyers predicts that the U.S. will export 1.53 billion bu. of wheat in the current fiscal year, compared with a record 1.38 billion last year. The average price is expected to climb from $3.82 per bu. to more than $4. Exports of corn and other coarse grains are likely to increase from about 73 million metric tons in fiscal 1980 to 76 million...
Another year of economic stagnation. That is the gloomy picture that TIME'S European Board of Economists sees for 1981. As nations struggle to absorb rapid-fire energy price shocks from the Middle East, unemployment in Europe will climb and torrid inflation will cool only slightly. To rein in rising prices, governments have resorted to traditional tactics, in particular sharply slowing the growth of their money supplies. The result is, however, an international war of high interest rates that threatens to deepen and prolong the economic malaise. Says Hans Mast, executive vice president of Switzerland's Credit Suisse...