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Offensively the Crimson looked sharper and more disciplined than they have at any time this season. The game, particularly the second half, was reasonably fast moving, yet Harvard turned over the ball only 15 times Only four of the turnovers came in the second half when the pressure was most intense...
Even before the price boost, AT&T, under John Dulany deButts, who has been chairman since February, was slowly moving ahead again. DeButts and his aides have trimmed labor costs and made sharper projections of future needs. Productivity has also been improved in recent years by adding advanced technology like the electronic switchboard, which handles all the routine details of long-distance calls, freeing operators to help with unusual problems. Third quarter earnings increased by 20% over the same period last year, to $642 million. Since last May, AT&T's stock has risen ten points, and last week...
...second half featured a revival (of sorts) for BU. The Terriers playing sharper defense, and holding onto the football for a change, put together two sustained scoring drives and "won" the half, 14-2. Terrier halfback Roger Harris sparked the BU wishbone with some nifty ball carrying to save the Terriers from a shutout...
...Chimera is finally unsatisfying, unrealized. Barth's imagination has soared higher, his wit has pierced sharper. Still, there are moments when it is all working, when the myth, the irony, and the experiment resolve themselves into some sort of precarious harmony, and the radical possibilities of this fiction come clear. So it is not too much to hope that the seventies will yet bear what the sixties begot. It is not too much to hope that Barth's best work is still unwritten...
That competition will become even sharper in the decade ahead. The Common Market is expected to be expanded from six nations to ten on Jan. 1. And Continental businessmen are watching with concern the emergence of a "Japanese challenge," as names like Toyota, Sony and Hitachi rise across Europe. Everywhere the conviction is growing that companies with conservative, nationalistic managements will be left behind in Europe's competitive leap forward-and that firms with impatient, internationally minded young executives will command the future...