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...fans in the bleachers of the IAB watched intently as Ed McNamara of NYU and Rich Pantel of Princeton fought a see-saw battle. At the time--after six of eight rounds--they were the only two fencers ahead of Vastola. If--the crowd thought--Pantel beat the undefeated McNamara, Vastola could perhaps secure first or second by thrashing McNamara himself, then polishing off his last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Disappointment | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...McNamara beat Pantel and Vastola, and then the Crimson captain lost his final bout against Cornell's Dan Budofsky. The crowd was disappointed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Disappointment | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...Harvard police worried. Several armed bodyguards accompanied Wallace, and then-University Police Chief Robert Tonis feared violence might erupt if the Wallace entourage attempted to walk through the crowd. So Tonis had the police escort Wallace through the tunnels to an awaiting car. (When Sectretary of Defense Robert McNamara was whisked away from demonstrators, however, the food tunnels linking five River Houses to the University's central kitchen were used...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: Harvard's Tunnels: Notes From The Underground | 10/19/1978 | See Source »

...most forceful speeches, World Bank President Robert McNamara severely chastised the wealthiest nations for a trend toward increased protectionism that seems aimed at the rising amount of finished goods made by the less developed countries (LDCs). He noted that the rich countries still sell about five times as much manufactured products to the poor countries as they buy from them, and that the LDCs absorb fully 30% of the industrial world's exports of finished products. So rather than worrying about the LDCS' "minuscule" exports of such products, McNamara said, the richer countries would be wise to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cheer and Gloom at the IMF | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

World Bank President Robert McNamara announced that starting in 1981, the bank will make loans totaling $500 million annually to enable Third World countries to begin oil exploration projects. That, too, should provide a continuing stimulus for growth. A major threat to further gains is the possibility that the developed countries will put up trade barriers against Third World exports. That would be self-defeating, warns the report, because only if the LDCs remain on the upswing can they continue to buy 28% of the manufactured goods exported by the industrial states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Vigorous LDCs | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

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