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...Calkins '45, said this week that Harvard has not received all of the answers it was looking for from Carnation and said he would send another letter to the company requesting further information. But he has declined to set a deadline for acting on a recommendation that the University divert itself of its $6.5 million worth of shares in the company...
Your article "The Great Vatican Bank Mystery" [Sept. 13] was a cheap shot. Banco Ambrosiano, with small I.O.R. holdings, can hardly be called a Vatican anything. Roberto Calvi was probably guilty only of greed and poor judgement. Italy's leaders, who are anticlerical, should not be allowed to divert attention from their economic bungling to the thin Vatican connection. Banco Ambrosiano is just another example of the weakness of the world banking system...
...hour Senate Banking Committee September 22, Feldstein was grilled for proposals he had made in the past to trim social security spending and divert resources away from housing programs...
...Best to divert them with takes of double-800s who are happily attending state schools and absurd geographical diversity cases this made it into Harvard. They don't believe you, but it seems to make them feel better until the topic changes to sex, by which time only the Haroble are lot and you lead them on into the humudity beyond the Yard for bitter sweet chocolate ice cream...
...ostrich disappeared from history, but the owner, the renowned yachtsman and orator Ted Turner, stayed in view. In a gallant gesture, intended to divert the attention of paying customers from the inept foolery of his athletes, he challenged Tug McGraw of the Philadelphia Phillies to a match race in which each of them would push a baseball around the bases with his nose. Turner won, though he lost a good deal of skin from his face when he skidded in the dirt...