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DURING ORIENTATION week freshman year, I did everything that all incoming freshmen do: I went to hear Dean Dunlop and Chase N. Peterson '52, then dean of Admissions, speak, attended a mixer in the yard, and ate pizza...
Almost the only price in the economy that went down last week was the "prime" interest rate that banks charge on loans to the most creditworthy business borrowers. Bowing to furious jawboning by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns, such major banks as Chase Manhattan, Manufacturers Hanover Trust and First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Co., which had hiked the prime rate two weeks ago, grudgingly pared it by one-fourth of a percentage point to 6½%. But several banks made it clear that they would go back up to 6¾% at the first chance. Burns won his shaky...
...First National Bank, and New York's Marine Midland Bank obligingly shaved their increases to a more reasonable quarter-point. But three others said they would not budge-and by week's end New York's Chemical Bank joined the jump to 6¾%. So did Chase Manhattan, on loans to its biggest customers...
...went through a manned toll gate on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Someone in the car screamed at the top of his lungs, "I am being kidnapped." The car drove on, but the attendant called the police. Though the troopers had only a poor description of the car, they gave chase and stopped it. As soon as Wes Lockwood saw the troopers, he said, "Thank God you are here." A man in the car, Ted Patrick, apparently falsely identified himself to the police as a clergyman. Wes's father, who was also in the car, showed the troopers a letter purportedly from...
Gray was, indeed. He had first met Nixon in 1947 at a black-tie dinner at Washington's Chevy Chase Club. Gray was then attending George Washington University, sent there by the Navy to get his law degree. Nixon was a freshman Congressman making headlines with his Alger Hiss investigation. The two got along well and struck up a correspondence. Early in 1960, when Nixon was Vice President, Gray worked for him as an advisor on military matters. When Nixon ran for President against John Kennedy, Captain Gray quit the Navy, giving up some retirement benefits to join the campaign...