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...Cornell baseball team came up with two runs in the eighth inning to overcome the Crimson by a 4-2 margin yesterday at Ithaca and further dampen Harvard's chances to defend the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League title...
...sale was at least a partial success for the Treasury. The gold, worth only $32 million at the $42.22 per oz. "official" price (used between governments), went for $124,841,256 in the auction-a tidy 300% profit. More important, as Washington had intended, the sale helped to dampen further the hopes of speculators that great numbers of Americans would rush to trade dollars for the yellow metal after it became legal for them to own bullion on Dec. 31. Bullion bulls in Europe and the Middle East were only temporarily distressed by the American disinterest, however. In a show...
...would favor rationing rather than a higher gasoline tax, which Administration aides have repeatedly proposed and President Ford has repeatedly rejected. Sprinkel, on the other hand, advocates scrapping all controls on domestic prices for oil and natural gas and letting prices rise as high as is necessary to dampen demand...
...Greece - both NATO allies - diminished, though it remained a worrisome possibility. The Soviet Union resisted the temptation to make political capital from the Turkish-Greek confrontation, thus affirming the spirit of detente with the U.S. And the other NATO nations fully consulted among themselves and acted in concert to dampen the conflict-in sharp contrast to the discord and backbiting during the energy crisis last winter. In short, the week demonstrated that the Western allies are still capable of drawing together and speaking with a unified voice...
...Brezhnev-Nixon meetings began in Moscow two years ago, Soviet officials have conducted a massive "vigilance" campaign to warn ordinary citizens of the danger of closer contacts with the West. Nationwide indoctrination courses and a spate of books, pamphlets, newspaper articles and television shows have all been designed to dampen Russian hopes that détente abroad might portend an easing of the cold war at home. No greater freedoms will flow from East-West agreements, the Soviet press insists. Instead, it cautions, a torrent of American spies is spilling into the U.S.S.R., in the guise of businessmen, scholars, students...