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...Crimson will no sooner have settled down from last night's late flight back from Cornell than they will hit the road again to face Brandeis this evening in Waltham. The Judges, while not on a par with some of the stronger east coast teams, are nevertheless a solid New England squad. However, Harvard should have little trouble disposing of Brandeis while maintaining the Crimson's position as the top team in New England...
...possible time to sell any securities, but I cleaned out the portfolio to finance his moviemaking. I particularly remember a line of Australian government bonds, for which we had paid a premium prior to the crash. I sold them off at $38, barely more than a third of their par value...
...imagine few worse political nightmares than having to ask Congress to devalue the dollar. Any such act was certain to stir up a chorus of accusations that the U.S. was acquiescing to a devastating loss of international power. Yet, when the Nixon Administration last week submitted to Congress the Par Value Modification bill, which will devalue the dollar 8.57% by raising the price of gold, its prospects for relatively swift passage were all but certain. The man most responsible for anesthetizing the issue in Congress-and thus allowing an unavoidable economic adjustment to take place-is a thoughtful, patrician Democratic...
...this light, the case of Dr. Daniel Ellsberg '52 is particularly unusual he is something of an archetype par excellence for the sort of interim activist leader we have described. His admitted role in helping to circulate The Pentagon Papers strikes a few themes central to the current American crisis...
...most exciting aspects of the group is the double banjo work, which has no par in blue grass today. The guitar also without equal, is heavily influenced by blues, and many who have heard this group feel that Country Cooking is the first true synthesis between blues and blue grass...