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That quiet drama ended a 19½-month chase-one of the longest and most intensive in U.S. history-and climaxed a bizarre odyssey that had a special and disturbing fascination for Americans. They had been appalled by the violence of the whole affair: the strong-arm kidnaping near a college campus, then the bank robbery in which Patty herself wielded a gun, then the surrealistic, nationally televised shootout that left six of her companions dead. With some apprehension, parents debated just why Patty, the heiress to a celebrated fortune, had become a self-proclaimed revolutionary. Many people claimed...
...Chase N. Peterson '52, vice-president for alumni affairs and development, said yesterday that "there are a number of drives ahead of this," on President Bok's priority list for University fund drives...
...IRRC report says that over 80 per cent of the large banks surveyed this year voted against some management proposals. Although the report does not indicate the names of most of the banks (they requested anonymity), the 1974 IRRC annual report lists most of the major New York banks--Chase Manhattan, First National City Bank, Morgan Guaranty Trust, etc.--and large banks from all over the country among its subscribers...
Familiar Figures. The very next day, while newspaper headlines bannered the deal that would save New York, it turned out that prayer would not suffice. The banks-notably Chase Manhattan, First National City and Morgan Guaranty Trust-which were being asked for new loans, took another look at the familiar figures in the budget and the familiar figures administering them and sadly shook their heads. With that, the solution so happily announced at the Waldorf collapsed...
...that short-term rates-now at 7¾% in the case of the prime rate-may rise another .25 to .5 percentage points. Chicago Banker Beryl Sprinkel, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, foresees an increase "perhaps to 8½% by year's end." Meanwhile, Chase Econometrics, a subsidiary of the Chase Manhattan Bank, believes short-term rates could go another one to 1¼ percentage points higher. If the cost of money does indeed reach that level, it could dampen consumer and corporate spending, pinch off the fragile turn-around in housing...