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...attack by budget cutters in the Reagan Administration. The $420 million payback will reduce the agency's need to borrow in the credit markets and thus may slightly ease pressure on U.S. interest rates. In addition, the settlement improves the agency's image by paring down its roster of deadbeats. Revolutions like Iran's have resulted in bad loans, including $26 million to pre-Mao China and $36 million to pre-Castro Cuba, that are unlikely ever to be paid...
Mike Stenhouse '80, the leftfielder who logged several battling records during the three years he played in a Crimson uniform, yesterday donned a Montreal Expos suit, becoming the first Harvard graduate to make a mid-season major league roster in eight years...
...other country save Britain. Despite increases of 10% or more for air and train fares, hotel, meals, gasoline and other tourist essentials, Americans, taking advantage of the favorable exchange rate, are spending more time and money in Italy than ever before. For returning visitors bent on escaping the usual roster of sun, sea, pasta and churches, cultural organizations like Alcatraz (no connection with the San Francisco penitentiary) offer courses in such offbeat subjects as ceramics and theater furniture making. Cooking courses abound, notably New York-based Marcella Kazan's in Bologna...
Eddie Murphy is the first of skitcom's major mimics to span the gap. On SNL he presents a roster of hilariously varied characters. One minute he is Little Richard Simmons, finding just the right comic fusion-effeminate yet macho-of the rock-'n'-roll screamer and the Liberace of aerobics ("Good golly, Miss Molly, you look like a hog!"). The next he is Velvet Jones, a pomaded pimp, with teeth like sheathed knives, huckstering his how-to books for young ladies, I Wanna Be a Ho and Exercises of Love. Now he is Tyrone Green...
Since then Rogers has worked his way up, rowing J.V. his sophomore year and then claiming the bow seat on the varsity last year. Currently Rogers is one of the two best starboards on the Harvard crew roster. When it came to seat-racing last fall, the oarsman was exempted from the head-to head challenges because, as coxswain Simon recalls. "There was no doubt" about his abilities...