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...Evening with Champions," an annual figure skating show sponsored by Eliot House, netted the largest contribution for charity in the fundraiser's 15-year history...
Within this intrepid travelogue lies the soul of Monty Python. The setting is the third largest island in the world, a fetid, fiercely overgrown jungle seething with carnivorous fauna and suspicious tribes. The protagonists are two British greenhorns with minimal survival skills. Poet James Fenton, 35, likes to spend his spare time reading the poems of Swift in a canoe. Narrator Redmond O'Hanlon, 37, is a literary naturalist who admits before embarking on the 1983 expedition, "The nearest I had ever come to a tropical rain-forest, after all, was in the Bodleian Library." Actually, he edges...
...everyone from divorce lawyers to the FBI was busily looking for culprits in the failure of Home State Savings, the Cincinnati thrift whose sudden collapse last month touched off a minor financial panic. The scare forced Governor Richard Celeste to close Ohio's 69 privately insured thrifts in the largest U.S. bank holiday since the Depression...
...Reagan Administration sees increased telecommunications sales to Japan as a key to closing the yawning American trade gap with the rest of the world. The Commerce Department reported last week that the U.S. foreign trade deficit widened to $11.4 billion in February, the biggest shortfall in five months. The largest single portion, $4.2 billion, represented the difference between U.S. exports to Japan and the flood of imported Japanese products. Because of such gaps, the total trade deficit is expected to reach at least $140 billion in 1985, up some 15% from the record set last year...
...Here and there, buildings smoldered, streets were barricaded. Less than a week earlier, 25 years to the day after the Sharpeville massacre of 69 black South Africans by security forces, the police had gunned down 19 black demonstrators near Uitenhage, 20 miles from Port Elizabeth, the Eastern Cape's largest city...