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Each morning at 8 o'clock, I enter the Council Office in City Hall. The first thing I go for is the Harvard Crimson. The Crimson has always been my friend. On Monday, Nov 4, I went for the Crimson and turned to the special Cambridge page and Lo and Behold! I found my name to be in the Harvard Crimson Editorial column. I came across a paragraph that said "Incumbent Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci's unique brand of populism includes crucial support for rent control--he provides the outgoing Council's fifth. "swing" vote to protect the system. Vellucci...
...after the end of the world, and Charles Alexander's lunch of salad and Pepsi Free sat untouched on his paper-strewn desk. Alexander, the editor of TIME's Economy & Business section, had spent the past nine hours blocking out this week's 24-page cover on the cataclysmic demise of the five- year-old bull market. Just after the market closed on Black Monday, editorial queries went out to an army of more than 25 TIME correspondents in 20 financial capitals around the world. Before long, their reports would begin hitting the In baskets of 30 editors, writers...
...What triggered it was not my remarks but a front-page story in one of our major newspapers. It quoted an unnamed Government official, not me, and drew inaccurate conclusions from my remarks in a way that could not but contribute to market nervousness...
While Shultz and Shevardnadze conferred on a range of topics from human rights to tensions in the Persian Gulf, Soviet and American arms-control specialists huddled over disputed phrases within bracketed passages of the 100-page draft INF treaty. Even though West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl had pretty much removed a major obstacle by agreeing to destroy his country's arsenal of 72 aging Pershing IA missiles, the Soviets wanted the German weapons system and its U.S.-controlled warheads mentioned in what the Americans considered to be a bilateral accord. Both sides indicated that a compromise was reached. Other points...
...Wall Street response was to turn to Madison Avenue. Sober television commercials popped up between World Series innings to reassure investors that their money was safe, and full-page ads appeared in major newspapers. Declared Prudential-Bache in large black type: "Now, especially now, you need an investment firm that is rock solid." That, of course, is exactly what Prudential claimed to be. Shearson Lehman implored readers to "talk with us" because "we share the concerns of every serious investor." Admonished Merrill Lynch: "The worst thing to do right now would be to sell at distressed prices...