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...Class of 1927, which has slightly more than 500 members remaining, has already contributed over $1 million in cash, the largest gift a 50th reunion class has ever donated, Clifton said...
...regional chapters of the country's largest black law students' organization met at Harvard this weekend and heard, among other things, a call to help prepare friend-of-the-court briefs in a controversial affirmative action case now under consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court...
...largest rugby tournament in the world was held last weekend at the Mardi Gras, and 16 members of the Harvard rugby team rented and borrowed cars for the 30-hour drive to New Orleans only to discover there had been a mix-up in the payment of their entry...
...sale of the Star Co. is only the latest in a recent epidemic of high-priced newspaper transactions. Australian Rupert Murdoch late last year paid more than $30 million for the New York Post. Gannett Co. is acquiring the 13-paper Speidel chain for $173 million. In perhaps the largest newspaper sale ever, S.I. Newhouse last year paid more than $300 million for Booth Newspapers' eight dailies and the Sunday supplement Parade. In all, 72 dailies changed hands last year, up from 49 in 1975. Says Otis Chandler, vice chairman of the Times Mirror Co. and an unsuccessful bidder...
...householder response to appeals from President Carter to dial down thermostats. In Chicago's North Shore residential area, consumption fell by as much as 15%. Nonetheless, hard-pressed utilities shopped far afield for additional supplies. A representative of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp., one of the nation's largest pipeline companies, prowled corporate corridors in Houston cornering utility men and offering to swap heating oil for Texas natural gas. A consortium of New York State power companies arranged for an extra 50 million cu. ft. of gas from Canada and another 50 million cu. ft. from California...