Word: quarterlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's lightweight crew, frustrated in the opening round last year, has attacked the Henley Regatta with a vengence this week. It attacked it on Saturday, when the Crimson dumped Cambridge University by a half-length, breaking the record on the quarter-mile practice course. It attacked it on Sunday, during a practice run, when Harvard shattered the half-mile record, set by Leander Boat Club last summer, by over four seconds...
...even at three-quarter efficiency, Harvard was impressive. The strong start and smooth gliding ability during the middle of a race that had set Harvard apart all week was still there, and it was enough...
...five-story stone-and-plaster house stood in Jerusalem's Abu Saud quarter, named for Arafat's maternal ancestors, who bore the title Maqib el-Ashraf, or scions of the nobles. It was one of a small cluster of homes located close to the Wailing Wall. Since occupying the city in 1967, the Israelis have bulldozed one Arab section to create a broad plaza, and their archaeologists have made extensive excavations to uncover more of the wall, dating from the Herodian period. Recently, the excavating reached the foundations of the Abu Saud house...
...site of New York's annual free Shakespeare festival. Another Delacorte gift, the Central Park Zoo's animated clock, is designed in the form of an animal carrousel. As its base revolves to glockenspiel music, the clock chimes one of 32 nursery rhymes on the quarter-hour and sends a comical beast dancing every half hour...
...cost of money will force managers of large corporations to reconsider some marginal capital-expansion projects. After a survey of 1,000 companies, Martin Gainsbrugh, chief economist of the National Industrial Conference Board, reports some retrenchment in plans to spend on new plant and machinery. Between the last quarter of 1968 and the first quarter of this year, planned spending dipped by 2½ % and in some industries by as much as 10%. Gainsbrugh believes that the long boom in capital spending will level off through the year, as businessmen face up to a squeeze on profits and repeal...