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Harvard toppled Lehigh, 87-80, in last year's inaugurat meeting between the two squads and will enter this year game as a very slight favorite...
...slight, balding man with a melancholy mien, Neves confesses that "the hope of the Brazilian people is so great it almost crushes me." In his first press conference the President-elect vowed that "the first, the most important and the most absolute of all the priorities of my government" would be to solve the economic problems of Brazil's northeast. This is the most backward region of the country; its inhabitants are so poor that they are known as "the afflicted ones." A recurrent theme of the press conference was inflation, which is now increasing at an annual rate...
...Those slight fissures, however, are becoming perceptible. Son of one of the most prominent men in Pennsylvania, young William is engaged to the daughter of a wealthy physician--and one of Benjamin's political enemies. Before the wedding can take place, the father imperiously takes his son off to London in 1757. Reading law at the Inns of Court serves to strengthen the young student's monarchist tendencies. Moreover, the circumstances of his birth only serve to deepen William's belief in British law. Observes Randall: In 1758, "William Franklin, bastard son of a provincial printer, was called...
...five-year civil war that has produced the strange bedfellows. Traditionally, coffee has provided more than 50% of the country's export revenues. It still does, but since 1980 income from coffee has shrunk, from more than $615 million to $403 million. This year bountiful rains promise a slight reversal of the trend. At current world prices, the Salvadoran coffee harvest could bring in as much as $410 million in desperately needed foreign exchange. Because roughly 25% of the crop is grown in areas contested or controlled by the guerrillas, more and more landowners have come to see the virtue...
...Soviet Union prepared for the Geneva meeting, there were signs of a slight thaw in Sino-Soviet relations. Chinese officials announced that the two Communist superpowers had negotiated three pacts on trade and scientific cooperation and a long-term treaty strengthening economic ties. But the two countries continued to be separated by wide political and ideological differences...