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...students who withdrew, 48.2 per cent eventually graduated from Harvard, with 2.8 per cent being elected to Phi Beta Kappa...
After the strike center fizzled in the beginning of the summer, Fleshier, like Kathy, withdrew from it. When it got kicked off campus, however, he did not return...
...ruled Egypt since 1952, when he overthrew the monarchy of King Farouk. He was so popular with his people that even when he offered to resign after his humiliating defeat by the Israelis in 1967, crowds poured into Cairo's streets shouting his name and he withdrew the resignation...
...paid off an election bet by carrying an open umbrella on a sunny afternoon and wearing a donkey tail. But other Chileans panicked at the news. Fearful of a stampede of scared investors, the Santiago stock market closed for a day for the first time since 1938, and depositors withdrew massive funds from Chilean banks. The black-market rate for the escudo soared to as high as 50 to the U.S. dollar-as compared with 14.5 at the official rate and 21 at the unofficial pre-election level. The U.S. consulate was swamped with calls for information about visas...
...financially troubled Diners' Club, which held the master lease on the ship's restaurant, hotel and convention center, recently withdrew from the project, after spending $5,500,000. Long Beach officials are now negotiating with a possible replacement, McCulloch Oil Corp., a company with some experience in British hand-me-downs. Two years ago McCulloch bought London Bridge and is reconstructing it as a tourist lure for its new town, Lake Havasu City, on the east bank of the Colorado River. "I still think the project is a good idea," says Long Beach City Manager John Mansell. "There...