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...closing of the canal. For all its promise, though, the pipeline seemed as unattainable as permanent peace in the Middle East-until last week, when the Egyptian government announced that an American firm had been hired to build it. Smack in the middle of the deal was Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc., a big American investment banking firm of the kind that militant Arabs have often denounced as instruments of American imperialism...
...started in Egypt since 1956, when John Foster Dulles, then Secretary of State, withdrew an offer of U.S. aid for the Aswan High Dam. Appropriately enough, it was arranged by an Egyptian-born Lebanese: reddish-haired, bespectacled Roger Tamraz, 34, a Harvard Business School graduate who heads Kidder, Peabody's Mideast office. He plucked the contract from a consortium of 16 European firms that had signed a preliminary agreement to build the pipeline in 1971. Says Tamraz: "It was straight out of the golden age of merchant banking, before accountants and clerks took over so much...
...Kidder, in fact, has yet to allow a goal this season, shutting out both MIT and Williams in his only two starts. Substitute netminder Ben Bryant was in goal for all three scores in a 3-0 loss to Wesleyan...
Offensively, the Lions could provide a good test for goalie Steve Kidder and the Harvard defense. Last year Columbia, while giving up eight tallies, picked up four of its own, more than Kidder allowed in any other game, and the Lions number several talented foreign-born forwards on their roster...
...things go according to form, however, captain Kidder and the solid fullback foursome of Brian Fearnett, Lawson Wulsin, Steve Mead, and Ralph Booth will hold Columbia in check and hope the offense delivers...