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...family. (The .3 would be a party with warm beer and no music). As part of the new leaf, the deans invested the Senior Tutors with additional powers and a new title, Allston Burr Senior Tutor and Dean Wharmer Party-Buster, in honor of the famous dean who brought Faber College's Delta House under control...
...There is no going back in pleasure. "Bother!" said Toad. He picked up a No. 1 Eberhard Faber pencil. He eyed it with the despair of a suddenly toothless gourmand confronting a life of strained carrots and peas. He found a schoolboy's lined notebook and started to write...
Last week's declines stunned everyone, from commodities brokers to Texas oil barons. Panic swept the New York Mercantile Exchange, the nerve center of U.S. oil trading. "There was pure chaos on the floor," said Joel Faber, president of Faber's Futures and a governor of the exchange. As the price of crude fell, shipments of heating oil for February delivery plunged to 55.75 cents per gal., the lowest level since the late 1970s. Six blocks away, on the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped a total of 26 points on Tuesday and Wednesday before pulling...
...task of solving ComputerLand's woes now falls to Ed Faber, 52, who served as president from 1976 until he retired in 1983. The former Marine Corps captain was salmon fishing in Redding, Calif., on Sept. 27 when Barbara Millard called to ask him to become the new chief executive. Within a day Faber had accepted, and last Monday he was in Chicago for a meeting of some 170 of the most disgruntled ComputerLand franchisees...
Moving quickly to address their complaints, Faber said that he will announce by the end of this month a plan to cut royalty fees, at least temporarily. "Everybody's very excited, although we realize miracles can't be worked overnight," says Ray Schlitzer, co-owner of three San Francisco stores...