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...penchant for obfuscation, De Gaulle phased out Pompidou in such a manner that the import of the affair was open to varying interpretations. After national elections, the Premier is required by law to hand in his and his government's resignation. De Gaulle used the procedure to dump Pompidou, but then cast the situation in another light by including in his farewell letter an intriguing line: "Dear Friend, hold yourself in readiness to fulfill any mandate the nation may one day bestow upon...
...next week Harvard rebounded to dump Penn, 45-7. It was the calm before the storm. In Soldiers Field Nov. 11, before 38,000 witnesses, Princeton murdered Captain Don Chiafaro's crew, 45-6. The Tigers' fullback Ellis Moore scored five touch-downs in his role as chief assassin. Brown fell, though not without a struggle...
...squad's most impressive win came against Brown, which Harvard had been unable to beat for several years. Down 2-1 at halftime, Harvard erupted for eight goals, three apiece by Landolt and Phil Fine, to dump the Bruins...
...teen-agers were killed instantly. After the raid, as I walked through the heart of Umuahia's residential quarter, a Ministry of Works dump truck had begun plying the streets to collect other victims...
...reluctance to raise its own discounts and add more upward pressure to housing costs results in a rush to dump loans on Fannie Mae. The association's resources get swamped, and it is forced to curtail purchases just when they are needed most to sustain housebuilding. When Fannie Mae moves to charge an increased discount, private lenders demand still larger ones. In its effort to conserve dwindling funds during the 1966 credit squeeze, Fannie Mae refused to buy loans larger than $15,000-a decision which Lapin says led to "pernicious inequities and market distortions" because "high-cost areas...