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...continuing dirge of downbeat American statistics last week underscored the sense of an economy slipping into recession and provided a gloomy setting for the annual reunion of world financiers at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in Washington. The Commerce Department reported that its index of leading economic indicators, which is supposed to predict the future course of the economy, dropped .5% during August, its third decline in the past four months. Sales of new one-family homes plummeted 14% during the month, to an annual rate of a mere 362,000 units, the lowest level since April...
FOUR YEARS AGO, in the 35th reunion book of the Harvard class of 1942, Monroe Engel gave the following account of himself: "I have continued to teach, write and take in various forms of nutrient." That, recounted in characteristic fashion, is indeed what he has done for most of the past quarter century. More specifically, he has taught creative writing at Harvard during those years and written creatively on his own. As a writer who teaches and a teacher who writes, Engel has lived on a plot of middle ground somewhere between his two professions. He has lived near Harvard...
...related his reunion in China with an older brother who had been in this country for 40 years. Yao told his brother he had been to Korea, that he had fought in the war for China. His brother responded that he too had been to Korea, but he had fought in an American uniform. "We had a lot to talk about," Yao told the suddenly hushed audience...
Like his father--now 95 and living near his son in Lincoln--Rand is a class agent, and he has actively participated in fund-raising for the University since his 25th reunion in 1968. He is, in every sense, a loyal Harvard trooper. Both his brothers went to school here. He supports the drive, not so much for its specific goals, but because it is Harvard and because it is Harvard and because he revels in what he calls "very high class" dinners and functions Harvard provides for fund drive supporters. Had this been a "bricks-and-mortar" drive...
...setting was less formal than at most of their previous meetings, but it still must have seemed like old times for Jimmy Carter, 56, and Anwar Sadat, 62. Winding up a six-day U.S. visit, the Egyptian leader detoured to Plains, Ga., to see his "deep friend." The reunion was all harmony and grits. Out on the old softball field, with Rosalynn and Jehan looking on, Jimmy presented Sadat with a glass sculpture of a laurel wreath. Sadat was at his gracious best, although Carter's detractors will doubtless delight in misconstruing his words. Said he: "Jimmy Carter...