Word: havens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seabed, a roaring good story with a moral that doesn't have to hit you across the head. Halberstam, who won the 1953 Dana Reed Prize in his days as managing editor of The Crimson, has certainly proven that his days in medical school and as a Washington cardiologist haven't dulled his abilities at a typewriter. The question that must be floating around the minds of his classmates in why they had to wait a quarter of a century for his first novel...
...racquetwomen proceeded to go 5-5 in the spring, and in addition to the traditional trouncing at New Haven, lost Ivy matches to Dartmouth and Penn, the latter a squad they would have laughed at in the fall...
Aside from outright illegality, the GSA, long a haven for lackluster patronage employees, suffers from inefficiency and careless shopping habits. Notes one Government insider: "The GSA operates on a service concept-if you don't like your wooden desk, they'll get you a marble one. Who cares? Nobody has to pay." The Washington Post revealed that the GSA was paying $56.50 for a General Electric cassette tape recorder that was on sale to the public for $46.90 at a Washington discount retailer. The GSA also paid $20.70 for a Texas Instruments pocket calculator that was priced...
Whatever happens to it, the Germans' approach is another evidence of the craving of foreign capital for a haven in the safe, solid U.S. Deutsche Bank viewed the W.T.C. as a sound investment in prime U.S. urban real estate, a market in which it already has some experience. During the past two years, with other German banks, Deutsche Bank has bought Pennzoil Place and Shell Oil Tower in Houston...
DIED. John Fischer, 68, gentlemanly editor of Harper's magazine from 1953 to 1967; of complications following surgery; in New Haven, Conn. Fischer imbued Harper's with graceful, intelligent prose and humor. He became known for encouraging writers and for the cool reason of his column, "The Easy Chair...