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...hard feelings-at least not in public As Bert Lance strode into the grand ballroom of New York City's Waldorf Astoria Hotel last week, more than 800 young brokers and bankers burst into prolonged applause. The warm welcome by members of the Investment Association of New York meant mainly that Lance still had friends far from his native Georgia. Partly out of respect for his feisty fight against leaving Washington, but more clearly out of appreciation for the conservative economic views that he had voiced as Jimmy Carter's Budget Director, the audience gave Lance three standing...
...cease-fire was greeted with rejoicing. President Elias Sarkis said he hoped soon to have the new Lebanese army, which has been trained for peace keeping, in the south to maintain peace. The cease-fire was also approved by Camille Chamoun, leader of the rightist Lebanese Front and the grand old man of the Christian side. For his part, P.L.O...
DIED. Clifford Roberts, 84, co-founder and president of the Augusta National Golf Club and for 43 years chairman of its prestigious Masters Tournaments; by his own hand (gunshot); in Augusta, Ga. A New York City investment banker and ardent amateur golfer, Roberts teamed up with Grand Slam Champion Bobby Jones to help launch the latter's "ideal" golf club in 1930. While its Masters Tournaments became well-attended sports classics, the austere, irascible Roberts kept Augusta National an exclusive golfing sanctuary for its 200-plus members. Among them...
...Juravich, coordinator of freshman intramurals and organizer of the event said yesterday that it is "designed to be non-competitive" in the grand tradition of the Adams House Raft Race; prizes will be awarded in approximately analogous categories...
Shirley D. Machinist, a Brookline art dealer, Joseph L. Maggio, also of Brookline, and Edward Dipietro of Malden were named in two-count federal indictments handed down by a federal grand jury in Boston on Wednesday, spokesman for the Boston office of the FBI said last night...