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After completing three games within 24 hours, the first-year Harvard softball team walked away from Webster Field yesterday afternoon with a 2-2 season record and a little more confidence in its ability to compete on the varsity level...
Sullivan said he would buy several million dollars in bond anticipation notes at an interest rate of 8 or 9 per cent to help fund renovations of the Webster. Longfellow and Roberts grade schools, but not until the state guaranteed that it would pick up 75 per cent of the costs...
...selling experience during the summer of 1979 was extremely rewarding. I was sent with the Harvard group to Los Angeles, (hardly the "Bible Belt") where I sold educational books (the two-volume Webster's Student Handbook Set) door-to-door to middle-class families. The job was very intense: long hours on foot, six days a week. By the end of the summer, however. I had not only met more interesting people than I could hope to count, but had also made more than twice the average earnings of a first-year salesman...
...business--going door-to-door in a neighborhood selling educational and religious books, primarily the two-volume "Webster Student Handbook Set"--was a six-day-a-week, twelve-hour-a day enterprise. Johnson said, adding that he earned 43 per cent of sales, which ranged from $80 to $240 daily...
...such story, the plight of TIME Reporter Raji Samghabadi, has until now remained secret. A native of Iran who taught himself English by reading Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Samghabadi was managing editor of an English-language daily in Tehran. In March 1979, he joined TIME'S Tehran bureau and stayed on after the magazine's correspondents were expelled at the end of that year. Because of concerns for his safety, his name has been kept out of the magazine for nearly a year. Those fears turned...