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...just about running out. The previous spring, in what turned out to be Essick's last meet, a mediocre Yale team had thoroughly embarrassed the cocky Crimson. That 64-49 defeat, Harvard's first in three years, reflected the less-than-exemplary attitude of a team about to sink from the weight of its own internal problems...
...Pharaon willing to pay so much for control of a bank that is running in the red, has suspended dividends, and saw the price of its stock sink as low as $8.50 a share before the cash-laden Saudi stepped in? Last week Pharaon met with reporters in Atlanta and brushed aside suggestions that he was trying to win favor with President Carter, who reluctantly last September accepted the resignation of his friend Lance as budget boss. Said Pharaon airily: "Why should I buy influence? If I ever wanted to meet the President, we have ways of meeting him through...
...made it" and are still struggling to move up in society. These groups--Italians, Jews, Germans, Irish, others--have not tyrannized blacks for centuries or profited from the tyranny. They didn't climb to wealth on the backs of exploited black workers, they didn't rise by making others sink. They arrived on American shores long after the blacks and the first whites did, and they faced discrimination and hardship of their own, albeit much less severe than that faced by blacks. And they cannot understand why they should have to pay for the sins of the people who oppressed...
...from toasters and TV sets to European vacations. Now the tiny Desert Empire Bank (assets: $8.5 million) near wealthy and exclusive Palm Springs, Calif., has come up with the most alluring bait perhaps considered so far: a $55,000 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow limousine for any customer who will sink $1 million into 6.25% certificates of deposit for six years. The bank will also throw in the price of the sales tax and license plates...
After riddling the Fordham zone defense in the first half, the Crimson got off only nine shots from the floor in the second stanza. The cagers hit seven of 14 foul shots, and out-rebounded 29-12. In fact, the hoopsters had a chance to sink a pair of fou! snots on 18 occasions during the game, and converted both only four times...