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High and volatile interest rates are not very helpful to most businesses, but many banks seem to make out just fine when money is expensive. That at least is one interpretation of the industry's impressive third-quarter earnings reports. After a ho-hum second quarter, profits have perked up; and for 56 of the nation's largest commercial banks, earnings have climbed by a brisk 18.2% over the same period last year, one of the largest such gains of any major business sector in the economy...
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...Callinan, Cuccia (65 yards rushing on 17 carries) and Jim Acheson (11 for 69) shared the load, rolling 67 yards on 13 consecutive runs before Acheson swept around left end for the score with 1:13 elapsed in the fourth quarter. Villanueva's PAT made it 27-3. Ho-hum, ballgame...
...frustrating win, with 16 penalties setting back the Crimson a total of 118 yds., and a missing-in-action pass rush allowing Columbia's drop-back passer, sophomore John Witkowski, plenty of time to hum aerials to either flat...
...sixth to show up, "there was a feeling that there was so little to do that it would be nice if the Faculty could get together to have tea." And so, each month that meetings were scrapped, assorted professors congregated and sipped tea. With this year's ho-hum agenda, and with a pervasive feeling that the full Faculty shouldn't take on an issue until everyone else has handled it first, it might not be a bad idea to recall that old tradition