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...Crimson closed within five points after Banks sailed home two last-ditch tallies, but Joe Leonidis flubbed a desperation layup with 30 seconds remaining and the 6-12 cagers had only sour grapes to gnaw...
President Bok, in a last-ditch attempt to win the Kennedy Library for Harvard, offers to trade the new Pusey Library for it. In a letter to UMass President Robert Wood, Bok writes: "Any university can do the easy and popular thing, establishing a John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library. But only a really interesting school would think of naming a library after Nathan Marsh Pusey...
There was another round of shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East last week, but for once Henry Kissinger was not involved. This time it was United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who flew back and forth between Jerusalem and Damascus in a last-ditch effort to extend the mandate of the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force on the Golan Heights. At week's end, after exhaustive deliberations in the U.N. Security Council, Syria reluctantly agreed to extend the mandate...
Desperately, New York officials considered last-ditch, long-shot proposals to escape default. They debated radical reductions in spending even to the point of cutting all salaries by as much as 25%. They weighed asking the city's 14,000 suppliers to accept 800 on the dollar for unpaid bills. Among them: $7.5 million for electricity in October and $604,000 for meat served at the city's prisons, hospitals and other institutions. The officials even opened negotiations with trustees of the five city employee pension funds to use their $8.5 billion in assets as collateral...
...crisis deepened, Beame made an urgent, last-ditch attempt to persuade President Ford to end his adamant opposition to a federal loan guarantee or any other help for New York. Earlier in the week, city officials had been cheered by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller's plea for swift congressional action to "avoid catastrophe." Despite White House denials, New Yorkers interpreted the Vice President's statement as meaning that Ford was relenting. In fact, Rocky and Ford were sharply and openly split on the issue, and White House aides were furious at the Vice President...