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...crisis deepened, Beame made an urgent, last-ditch attempt to persuade President Ford to end his adamant opposition to a federal loan guarantee or any other help for New York. Earlier in the week, city officials had been cheered by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller's plea for swift congressional action to "avoid catastrophe." Despite White House denials, New Yorkers interpreted the Vice President's statement as meaning that Ford was relenting. In fact, Rocky and Ford were sharply and openly split on the issue, and White House aides were furious at the Vice President...
...apply gentlemanly persuasion to straighten Hutchison out. In August the bank agreed to pump $30 million into the company in return for 150 million newly created shares of its stock-on condition that Clague give way to a bank-picked successor. That ultimatum prompted Clague to make a last-ditch effort to raise capital from European banks. He failed...
...Canadians, however, refused to be intimidated. With three minutes remaining, Harvard bobbled a kickoff and McGill scampered in for the score. Several last-ditch efforts by Sherman and Demattel could not alter the outcome with McGill edging the Crimson...
...make her first public speech since the chaotic days of the Cultural Revolution more than five years ago. After addressing a conference on Chinese agriculture, Mme. Mao then showed her proletarian stuff by donning peasant clothing and setting to work shoveling the good earth from a nearby irrigation ditch...
Prime Minister Harold Wilson proposed the incomes policy in July as a last-ditch measure to curb the nation's disastrous 26.3% annual inflation rate. The TUC's willingness to look beyond narrow conceptions of economic self-interest raised at least tentative hopes that the nation might be moving finally toward recovery. Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey warned, however, that cost increases already in the pipeline will go on pushing up prices for several months before "the benefits of the lower pay settlements are reflected in the shopping basket." Continued price increases almost inevitably will bring...