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...them with. They are there with stacks of books, pen and paper, lecture notes. Some even go so far as to come fully attired, as if to punish themselves for wandering from the hallowed halls of academe. But most slyly tuck away the accouterments of the experienced sunbather--sunglasses, cocoa butter, iodine, baby oil or Sea 'n Ski (depending on skin type), towels, pillows, harmonicas, frisbees, blankets, congo drums (?!). All of this is hidden in bags and purses under layers of the Puritan ethic in the shape of school work. Take, for example, a young woman who dutifully begins reading...
...license as a commodity trading adviser from the Commodities Future Trading Commission, the federal agency created in 1974 to regulate the industry. He set up Lloyd, Carr in mid-1976 to specialize in the most speculative of all investments: options in futures of such items as coffee, sugar, cocoa and copper, which are traded on the London commodities market...
Warning signals about the Swiss system have been flashing on and off for several years. In 1970 the Basel branch of the United California Bank went broke after losing $50 million in cocoa futures trading. Around the same time came the collapse of Bernard Cornfeld's Geneva-based Investors Overseas Services empire, built with the assistance of Switzerland's loose banking laws -and in part with that of the banks themselves. In 1974 the Union Bank of Switzerland lost $56 million in foreign-exchange speculations, and the Lugano branch of Britain's Lloyd's Bank dropped...
...blew all your pocket change on cocoa butter, jai-lai, and trans-Florida pizza runs, you'll have to settle for Cheap Trills, a violin, guitar, mandolin and bass quartet, hits the Winthrop JCR Saturday at 8:30 p.m. For $1.50 you can find out if Winthrop hits back...
...Consumer Price Index rose at an annual rate of 10%, the biggest monthly jump in a year and a half. No one expects that hectic pace to continue through the spring, but energy costs are certain to go on rising this year. Moreover, prices of a number of commodities-cocoa, cotton and most notably coffee-are climbing...