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...international currency markets, the action was only a shade less hectic. For the first time ever, the U.S. dollar slid below the landmark price of 150 ( yen to the dollar in Tokyo before rebounding to 153.25 yen at week's end, marginally higher than a week earlier. In Bonn, the dollar hit a 6 1/2-year low of 1.81 deutsche marks before microscopically edging back to close at 1.815, a 1.8% decline from the previous week...
Loeb University Professor Emeritus Archibald Cox '34 also finds himself with new speaking and lecturing engagements, some as a result of the Bicentennial Celebration. Coupled with his teaching responsibilities at the Law School of Boston University, additions to an already hectic schedule leave the former Watergate special prosecutor pressed for time to serve his other posts...
...Harvard played a superior, if hectic, ballgame overall and quickly retook the lead for good. The Crimson shot 59 percent from the floor in the second half (54 percent for the game), and committed only 13 turnovers. But Harvard's intensity, if statistically measurable, would have been unusually...
...Zealand, the peripatetic Pontiff marked his first visit to the island continent with a blitz that , included stops in the capital, Canberra, the state capitals of Brisbane, Sydney, Hobart, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, and the outlying -- very outlying -- city of Darwin and town of Alice Springs. Despite the hectic pace, his Holiness was never too busy to shake an outstretched hand or, in the case of a sedentary koala named Simon, a diffidently proffered claw. The Pope-koala encounter came at Brisbane's Queen Elizabeth II stadium, where the Pontiff obligingly held the animal in his arms before delivering...
...feel that I'm being pulled in different directions," Scalise says about his hectic workload. "First is the sport in season, then the out-of-season sport, recruiting, office work and fundraising--that doesn't leave much time for anything else," he adds...