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...victory over defending title-holder Princeton provided a new chapter for Great Harvard Sports Stories. The match literally boiled down to the final point, as fifth-spotted sophomore Chip Robie--rebounding from a three-day illness--edged Tiger Jason Fish in the decisive fifth game by a narrow 15-13 margin. Seniors John Stubbs at number three and Bob Blake at number eight also collected five-game triumphs...
...already prompted a long list of complaints. Candidates must spend inordinate time and effort organizing and raising money for a drive in three dozen primaries and even more campaigning across the country to get their names known. That necessity works against a responsibly employed but generally unknown office holder who has pressing duties the to fulfill, and in favor of an "unemployed millionaire," in the sarcastic tone of Senator Howard Baker, a loser under the new system. Primary campaigns, it is charged, are largely television campaigns, rewarding the candidate who flashes a winning smile over the one who talks...
...community last week, as banks hiked their best corporate interest rate to 20%, the ninth increase in the prime since the first of the year. The latest rise pushed the country's basic price for business borrowing money to its highest level in 141 years. The alltime record holder: 36% interest in 1839 during the Martin Van Buren Administration, when overextended land speculators and merchants set off financial panic, one-quarter of the young nation's banks failed, and a deep depression helped kill Van Buren's hope for a second term...
...Cavalry, Special Air Service, New Scotland Yard, as well as antiterrorist experts flown in from Israel, West Germany and Japan. While the new Prime Minister dithers, responsibility for the rescue is divided between the S.A.S. and the admirable Jack Lash, head of the Yard's antiterrorist squad and holder of the George Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry awarded by the Crown to a civilian. Meanwhile, the invaders have imprisoned Her Majesty and a young lady-in-waiting in the palace's royal apartments. Almost as pressing as the need to save the Queen is the absolute necessity...
...garrulous about race horses but extremely secretive about business, and there are no published figures on his activities since public investors do not participate in them. Bunker once told reporters that "I am not a speculator. I am not a market squeezer. I am just an investor and holder in silver...