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Carter said that the United States should no longer be known as the "arms merchant of the world...
...Juliana's royal subjects hoped that the same was true of her dapper, German-born husband Prince Bernhard, 65. When rumors from the Lockheed bribetaking scandals began to gather around Bernhard's royal head last February, the majority of the Dutch public preferred to consider their esteemed merchant prince innocent, at least until proved guilty. Last week, however, the prince was forced to resign from virtually all his public and official posts after a government commission severely chastized him for "extremely imprudent" dealings with Lockheed. The prince, who served as Inspector General of the Dutch armed forces, will...
...cream without guilt. It's magic," says the hopeful proprietor of Yogurt Yogurt, an Alexandria, Va., shop opening this week. The magic began four years ago in Cambridge's Harvard Square. There, in a hole in the wall called the Spa, William Silverman, a shrewd merchant, began selling the already popular cultured-milk product in a frozen version and soon attracted long lines of blue-jeaned teeny-boppers and J. Pressed Harvard men. The lines are still there. From the Spa, frozen yogurt leapfrogged to Manhattan's trendy Bloomingdale's, and is now well...
Last year Rockefeller and his management staff set up a profitability analysis project to halt the bank's downward slide. Consequently, the Chase has been moving faster into the merchant banking field abroad. Loan standards have been tightened. The Chase has closed six of its 265 branches because they were unprofitable, and as many as 30 more might be shut down. In an effort to trim its paperwork problems, the bank has sold off its payroll processing and stock-transfer departments to smaller data-processing firms. As a result, in a move that one veteran officer describes...
...cadet, whom she loyally refused to identify-he apparently was her financé, Mark Lewis, 22, a senior from Las Vegas-went to bed in her dorm room. Most colleges officially frown on student sex on campus but handle the matter by looking the other way. Not so the Merchant Marine Academy, which classifies copulation in the barracks as conduct unbecoming and worthy of dismissal...