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...past two years Harvard has edged Penn for the national championship. The Crimson reached its peak last March when it had five of the six finalists in the intercollegiate six-man tournament championship. Penn had been slightly favored, but Harvard humiliated the Quakers and every other collegiate team...
Sonny (William) Brown is a jailbird, too, but he is not bound for chow. He is going to the gym to cut an album. Though Sonny has been in prison for all but 42 months of the past 20 years, he is, at age 42, at the peak of a spectacular musical career. Master of the piano, flute, bass, guitar and sax, he also composes, arranges and conducts. Lately he has led his band in three separate dates at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel. He and his band recently toured the state to rave reviews and tearful standing ovations...
...Matter of Loyalty. Why did Crown, whose personal wealth is estimated at more than $400 million, want to re-enter the scene at General Dynamics? Last year profits tumbled from a 1966 peak of $54 million to $2,530,000, only one-tenth of 1% of the company's $2.5 billion sales. G.D. has been plagued by losses in its shipyard division, a microfilm products subsidiary, and the controversial F-111 fighter-bomber...
...There is a significant peak in telephone usage during the four or five hours around noon every workday. During many of the 20 other hours of the day, the telephone system is almost idle. But the Bell System and the FCC have had great difficulty in responding to this obvious problem. This is especially tragic for Bell's shareholders because, with a $41 billion investment in plant, any minute when it is not being used to peak capacity is costing them a great deal in lost profits...
...paying plenty of attention to them, both to their excesses and to the underlying causes of their despair, if despair it is. In fact, some observers believe that the radical movement in the U.S. has passed its peak. Harvard's Seymour Lipset notes that "terrorism can mark either the beginning or the end of a movement...