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Major League Baseball has just completed its season-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's arrival in the game. The number he wore during his 10 years with the Brooklyn Dodgers--42--was permanently retired from use by all teams. Tributes were offered, speeches made. And some of the ensuing applause sounded suspiciously like people, including those who run baseball these days, patting themselves on the back...
...event participants were then invited to a reception in Robinson Hall, where Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles spoke to the students, alumni and Faculty present...
Sanford Weill, chairman of Travelers Group, is known to keep reams of business information in his head--for instance, precisely when he stomped out as president of American Express after clashing with then-CEO James Robinson. "August 1985," he says, correcting a reporter about the time of the event. In a decade of almost nonstop dealmaking since then, Weill has not only clawed his way back but last week was being hailed as the new king of Wall Street after Travelers sealed a $9 billion deal to acquire Salomon Bros., one of the world's largest bond-trading houses. Says...
...Nubian knowledge to Egypt with their rule. Now that archaeologists and Egyptologists are turning away from the racial prejudice practiced in earlier years against Africans, perhaps more specialists in the field will agree that the ancient Nubian civilization formed the basis of the first Egyptian dynasties. LEE M. ROBINSON, President African Historical Research Society St. Louis...
Other women associated with the council who were unable to attend last night's event include Prime Minister of Pakistan Bennazir P. Bhutto '73; Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland; and Kim Campbell, the former prime minister of Canada...