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Thus, in addition to the debacle at the Bernsteins', Radical Chic brought on the party that Assemblyman Andrew Stein gave for a few striking Mexican-American grape workers on his father's estate in Southampton. The select "all stood there in their Pucci dresses, Gucci shoes. Capucci scarves. The wind had come up off the ocean and it was wrecking everybody's hair. People were standing there with their hands pressed against their heads as if the place had been struck by a brain-piercing ray from the Purple Dimension." And in Wolfe's view...
More importantly, Parker places a higher value upon rowing one's best rather than winning. In fact, when his seven-man hurt his hand so severely before the Stein Cup race last April that he was a questionable starter, Parker allegedly told his crew that he would seriously consider forfeiting the regatta, one the Crimson was sure to win easily, if the oarsmen could not compete. He was that concerned about the shell staying together as a unit...
...last year, the figure was down to 19.3%. Big banks can hardly lend any more. Partly because they eagerly shoveled out cash to almost all comers during the boom years, they now have a high, potentially dangerous 86% of their deposits committed in loans. Says Fred Stein, chief executive of a subsidiary of Standard & Poor's Corp.: "The money markets are in a full-fledged rout, and something has to be done to check...
...quite possible that stocks may soar after some favorable turn of events in the near future, but last week the bearish mood went far beyond economics alone. As Howard Stein, president of the Dreyfus Fund, put it: "What is happening on Wall Street is what is happening in the world. We are overextended morally, economically and politically, and we are about to get our first margin call as a national power." In front of the Corinthian columns of the New York Stock Exchange, hard-hatted construction workers bearing American flags attacked a group of youthful antiwar demonstrators...
Harvard has always won the Stein Cup, over Brown and Rutgers, by an impressive margin on the previous weekend, and is still somewhat unproven by this time. Princeton, after an auspicious early start during which it whips Rutgers and Navy, has lost badly to Penn the week before...