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...trying to clean up their debts and build their cash reserves. Speaking of 1970, James Howell, chief economist of Boston's First National Bank, says: "We damn near had a collapse of business-loan demand." Consumers have also been reluctant to borrow because they are worried about social unrest, the economy and rising unemployment, which has been unusually high among the traditionally safe middle-income groups. More and more people are putting off buying. Instead, personal savings are rising to record heights. The Bank of America, the nation's largest, has been swamped with deposits, which last year...
...time of great unrest and turmoil in ancient Judea. Restive under the rule of pagan Rome, the Jews of Palestine in the 1st century A.D. repeatedly defied their conquerors with covert gestures of opposition and open acts of rebellion. The Roman response was usually swift and cruel. Perhaps because he participated in one of these uprisings or committed some other grievous offense in the eyes of Jerusalem's stern rulers, a young Judean named Yehohanan (a Hebrew form of John) was sentenced to death. Like thousands of other Jews-including Jesus of Nazareth -who were also condemned...
...used almost the same phrasing he had used earlier, describing his hope of stimulating enthusiasm among undergraduates while refusing to "shoot from the hip" on questions about the future status of women at Harvard or offer his opinion of the report of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest...
...particularly vicious assassination, presumably perpetrated by Naxalites, occurred last week. Dr. Gopal Sen, 58-year-old vice chancellor of Calcutta's Jadavpur University, a center of Naxalite unrest, was pounced upon by a group of young men as he took his evening walk, bludgeoned with steel bars and stabbed four times. He was scheduled to have retired from his university post the following...
...COURSE, given that Love Story has about as much to say about Harvard as, say, the President's response to the Report on Campus Unrest, the whole gimmick was bound to backfire sooner or later. Arthur Hiller, the film's director, met with the only sincere applause during the pre-film festivities that followed Redstone's speech, when he referred to the whole evening as a chance to watch yourself in your own home movies. But though everyone strained not to miss a single bit of background action, and though the hockey boys applauded themselves extravagantly, precious little of Harvard...