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...Says David Jones, an economist with the New York-based Government securities firm of Aubrey G. Lanston & Co.: "The Administration is doing too much, too fast, by imposing this superdeficit on top of the monetary restrictions needed to wind down a decade and a half of inflation." Adds Philip Hummer, a partner in the Chicago securities firm of Wayne Hummer & Co.: "The financial community gets very emotional about these high deficits. It is absolutely wrong to say that they do not matter. The trend is the most important element of all, and the deficit trend right now is terrible." Financiers...
What happened instead was a 14-0 ho- hummer with about as many thrills as a Life of Riley re-run, generous libations tucked away in countless cost pockets were about all that could keep the capacity crowd cheerful (and warm...
...awesome. Ivy titles in 1969, '76 and '77, and the NIT title in 1974. Upset wins versus North Carolina (a 16-pointer, with McAdoo and Jones playing for the opposition), Notre Dame, South Carolina, Oregon, Providence, Alabama, et al. First-round draft picks the likes of Geoff Petrie, John Hummer, Brian Taylor and Armond Hill...
...been totally ignored by fans and players alike. Scribes say he may soon be out of a job. Maybe he could go back to football. Reagan plays too far to the right for even a right fielder and Ford copies him, thus the famous Republican Shift. Kissinger's hummer is no longer what it once was, and his refusal to let anyone else play the infield positions has hurt in the past...
...whom most magicians consider the greatest card manipulator extant; Percy Diaconis, a Harvard Ph.D. in statistics and inventor of more than 100 card sleights that have fooled professional gamblers; Martin Gardner, a science writer who can make the language of numbers appear as easy as pi (see box); Robert Hummer, a mathematical genius who would sleep on the floor rather than rearrange the cards...