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...political distortion, half-baked ideas and the big-lie technique," countered the other. The latest salvos in the presidential campaign? No, just samples of the recent invective between James Miller, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, and the man he replaced, Commissioner Michael Pertschuk. A staunch consumer advocate whose seven-year term at the FTC expired last week, Pertschuk left office fightin', feudin' and fumin'. He accused Miller, a Reagan appointee, of deliberately sidetracking the FTC's mission to protect consumers against unfair and deceptive business practices. "While they have fiddled," complained Pertschuk...
...swimming team was pretty surprised itself, when Navy and Columbia beat the Crimson on successive days. The defeat at Navy broke a 32-meet winning streak and the loss at Columbia dropped Harvard's seven-year mark to 58-3. But somehow, the aquamen managed to tie for the Eastern league crown and, in top form by season's end, eked out their sixth consecutive Eastern Seaboard title...
...past decade, ever since former deans of the graduate school Edward T. Wilcox and Burton S. Dreben '49 implemented the current need based financial aid policy in the early 1970s. Using the centrally administered financial aid as a wedge, according to one account, the GSAS bureaucracy swelled under the seven-year deanship of Edward L. Keenan '57, who stepped aside in July...
...country with one of the worst human rights records in the hemisphere (116 political killings and kidnapings a month). The results might also earn a small reward from the U.S. Congress, which is currently studying an Administration request for $10 million in "nonlethal" military aid for Guatemala, after a seven-year embargo on such assistance. Summed up the Rev. Kenneth Baker, a Jesuit priest and one of eleven official U.S. observers at the elections: "We have seen a tremendous hope in the future, but not necessarily a certainty...
...banks last week raised the prime rate that they charge corporate customers from 12.5% to 13%. That helped boost the dollar to record highs against the British pound and the Canadian dollar. The U.S. currency also hit a peak for the year vs. the Japanese yen, and a seven-year high against the Swiss franc. Many economists expect further hikes in interest rates and a continued strong dollar...