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Harvard's sailing team won its fourth major trophy of the season in New London last weekend as it shook off M.I.T. in the competition for the Fowle Trophy, symbolic of the New England Fall team racing championship...
...Amman last week, Jordan's King Hussein and Guerrilla Leader Yasser Arafat shook hands self-consciously. The gesture sealed a shaky agreement. In the wake of the ten-day civil war that claimed thousands of lives, Hussein won a pledge of loyalty from the Palestinian guerrillas. At the same time, he granted the fedayeen broad freedom to move and operate within his kingdom. Yet scarcely had Hussein and Arafat concluded the bargain when minor skirmishes between guerrillas and loyalists began breaking...
Some of the YAF delegates seemed bored with the speech. Some seemed uneasy. One shook his head slowly as Thurmond spoke...
Burgers and Scotch. Troubles began piling up for Gramco soon after upheavals in Cornfeld's I.O.S. shook investor confidence in American-run investment plans in Europe. Last month redemptions began to climb alarmingly after West Germany's Federal Credit Supervisory Board abruptly banned sales of Gramco's USIF. The board acted on the disputed grounds that the fund failed to comply with some complex provisions of a new German securities law. In the last five weeks, the owners of more than $40 million worth of shares asked for their money back. But real estate...
Last week he shook up conservatives again by making his bank the first sizable one to cut the prime rate-the basic interest charge on loans to businesses with the best credit ratings-from 8% to 7½. Jokingly, he said that he pared the prime partly because "our bank needs the publicity. We haven't been in the newspapers for quite a while...