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...speak in the Harvard Yard in early April, and were more affected by his angry, cadent rhythms than by his actual words. "Hooray, hooray," we all shouted, basking in the sunshine and the communal glow of self-congratulation. After the speech a few hundred of us, still in the grip of moral ecstasy, stood before President Bok's office and shouted things. An all-night vigil began. It rained, and began to get cold; a few, huddled under umbrellas, stayed the night and then departed the next day. Almost three weeks later, 45 students occupied the 17 Quincy Street headquarters...
...have one thing in common: the fear that the Fed would ease up on money policy. Following last month's temporary closing of 69 savings institutions in Ohio, the dollar took a beating in money markets. Reason: fear that the Federal Reserve would be forced to loosen its grip on the money supply and lower interest rates to protect the U.S. banking system. Last week's dollar slide was due in part to worries stemming from the bankruptcy of Bevill, Bresler & Shulman Asset Management, a small New Jersey investment firm dealing in Government securities. The Federal Reserve, though, has given...
...make her move before 1988 by taking on moderate Republican Senator Charles Mathias in her home state of Maryland next year. If she won, they point out, she would not only gain a stepping-stone to the No. 2 spot in 1988 but also tighten the right's grip on Republican reins...
...receiving line in the white-and-gilt Hall of St. George. Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and First Vice President Vasili Kuznetsov were by his side as he greeted the foreign dignitaries. Gorbachev looked his guests in the eye, occasionally giving a visitor a two-handed grip or flashing a reserved smile of recognition...
...just turned 26 and has not exactly been silenced, or even quieted. Maybe he will grow into a greater mantle. Of all the athletes in their prime, Martina Navratilova should have the nearest understanding of where Gretzky and Bird are situated. For the past three years, her grip on women's tennis has made Margaret Court, Billie Jean King and Chris Evert Lloyd protective of their memories. It would be appropriate to say that Martina has played the competition off its feet, except that she is the only powerful woman tennis player who really leaves her feet, a smasher with...