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Word: bigs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems. The loophole is so big that some Harvard Office of Graduate and Career Plans officials say they are convinced the government will fill it by executive order this month, before the plan goes into effect in January...

Author: By David N. Hollander, | Title: Draft Law Still Confused On Day of First Drawing | 12/1/1969 | See Source »

BUSINESS BOARD: The Crimson is an independent corporation worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The people on the Business Board keep us all afloat. If you want to learn about big business and the octupus-like nature of Harvard Student Agencies scare you, as well it might, compete for the Business Board. After election, Business Board members earn a healthy commission on all ads they sell, including the ones sold during the competition. The Crimson will teach you how to sell ads and subscriptions, balance the books, and run off to Puerto Rico with anything you happen to pick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Putting the Crimson to Bed | 12/1/1969 | See Source »

Soyuz Failure. The big booster was apparently designed for at least one of three alternative missions: 1) a direct landing on the moon by two cosmonauts, 2) the launch of an unmanned lander that would scoop up lunar material and return it to earth, or 3) the launch of major components of a manned orbiting platform. But the accident delayed further tests of the rocket. The lofting of three manned Soyuz shots last month, for example, apparently fell short of its goal. Two of the craft were equipped with docking collars, but failed to link up. Why? According to Aviation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: Disaster at Tyuratum | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...hold the line on wage and price increases. Last week he followed up by inviting 3,000 corporate leaders to the cavernous ballroom of Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel; 1,800 came for an anti-inflation "briefing" reminiscent of a college pep rally on the eve of the big Thanksgiving football game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: INFLATION JAWBONING, NIXON-STYLE | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...hilltop, the leftist press angrily accused the Holy See of wire pulling to arrange the zoning. When the government carved Via Olimpica across Rome to speed traffic to the 1960 Olympic Games, anticlerical pundits charged that the thoroughfare was laid out to provide huge profits for Immobiliare, which owned big tracts of property along the route. Early this year, small stockholders raised an outcry against the church when Pantanella, a big flour-milling firm, cut the book value of its shares by 75% to stave off a possible financial collapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investment: Low Profile for the Vatican | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

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