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Manhattan was led by junior transfer Bill Wheeler, who scored 33 of the quietest points in memory. Jasper center Pete Runge was awarded 23 points by the official scorer for winning the Billy Paultz play-alike contest. (For those who don't remember, Paultz is the former NBA player whose boorish and unimaginative play earned him the nickname "The Whopper...
...process of striking his settlement with U.S. authorities, the relentless wheeler-dealer who earned the nickname "Ivan the Terrible" talked long and hard to investigators about the stock trades he had made using insider knowledge. He also reportedly allowed regulators to eavesdrop on and tape his telephone conversations as he conducted his business dealings. Last week Boesky's singing began to discomfit some of the biggest names in the corporate-takeover business. Said Pierre Rinfret, head of a Wall Street investment and consulting firm: "This...
...that the White House designated Poindexter to look into the idea, and he named North as liaison with Israel. In any case, the Israeli businessmen were authorized by Peres to resume contacts and strike a deal with the Iranians. The executives turned to Adnan Khashoggi, a famed Saudi Arabian wheeler-dealer and an extremely wealthy businessman. He got a long shopping list from Tehran that included Hawk antiaircraft missiles and radar-guidance equipment for them, antitank missiles, and spare parts for jet fighters...
George B. Field, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, said that the group is fasting to express personal support for Hyder's activism. "We want to draw attention to the urgency of ending the nuclear arms race and to Hyder's personal commitment," Field said...
Goldwater's uncompromising libertarianism was appealing enough to both small-town Republicans and big-city wheeler-dealers to give him the 1964 presidential nomination, although he was crushed in a landslide of historic proportions. Today he sees it all as a kind of felix culpa, a happy fall. "It never bothered me. We accomplished what we wanted to accomplish. We broke the Eastern Establishment's hold on the G.O.P. We moved it westward." The campaign also inspired another Western conservative by the name of Ronald Reagan...