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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last winter in Providence, Rhode Island, I met another creature out of collegiate folklore and mythology. This time I had the good fortune to interview Duke's Blue Devil immediately after the Duke basketball team whipped Villanova earn a trip to the NCAA finals in St. Louis, Missouri...
...sell them 3,000 metric tons of "Barahona," a choice Arabic blend grown in the Dominican Republic, at a bargain price. Reportedly, Fessler and some cohorts produced all the documents attesting to the availability of the coffee, and the deal was clinched last October on the Caribbean island of St. Martin. The Cubans agreed to a price of $1.39 a lb., vs. $1.54 on the world market. In a later meeting, the Cubans asked if they could inspect the coffee. No need for that, Fessler assured them. Everything was fine...
...chapel of the Palafox Seminary, before an audience of bishops, 6,500 miles from St. Peter's, John Paul delivered a 5,000-word speech that may mark the entire course of his papacy. The text was designed to strip away any ambiguity over future papal social policy. From Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum (1891) to John XXIII's Mater et Magistra (1961), papal encyclicals have rejected both the "unregulated competition" of laissez-faire capitalism and Marxism's class struggle with its elimination of private property. However, in his 1967 encyclical Populorum Progressio, Paul VI allowed...
Southwest Bank in St. Louis is no financial leviathan, but its starchy chairman, Isaac Long, 79, likes to throw his weight around when it comes to interest rates. In 1974 Long's bank (assets: $150 million) became the first in the nation to cut rates after nearly a year of steady increases. Last week he was out in front again. He chopped Southwest's prime lending rate to its most credit-worthy borrowers a quarter-point, to 11.5%, touching off speculation that a climb of almost two years in the prime might soon...
...University did take the first steps toward assuaging some of the hard feelings last week, when Graduate School of Design officials announced that they would consider giving tenants on Sumner St., scheduled to be evicted on June 1, more time to move...