Word: brackets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British government last week announced that it is making oral contraceptives available at trifling cost under the National Health Service to Britain's women, who number 12,250,000 in the child-bearing (15-49) age bracket. The measure, though duly limited by requiring doctors' prescriptions, seemed a significant step toward massive, government-paid support for curbing a nation's population. Yet much concern in the House of Commons was over the possible but unpredictable cost to the treasury...
...experienced and are favored to win, but their opponents --Paul Olmstead and Tech co-captain Greg Brown--are both returnees from the succesful 1960-61 squad, so their matches will not be pushovers for the Crimson. Ken Reese of Harvard will face Tom Gerrity in the 157-lb, bracket...
...suit for alerting police to a would-be refugee near the border, and Karin Mundt got the same prize for directing a suspicious stranger "not to the border but to the border guards." The girls were members of the Young Pioneers, Communist Girl Scouts in the 10-14 age bracket. Vigilant boy pioneers got footballs and sports shirts...
...dividends. Guatemala and Paraguay, both sorely in need of development funds, have no income taxes, although Guatemalan President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes is trying to push one through Congress. Colombia does not tax capital gains. While the U.S. levies a maximum income tax of 91% on top-bracket citizens, maximum taxes on Latin Americans average...
...newest social center, the trampoline. The mothers-Jackie, Ethel, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Pat Kennedy Lawford and Jean Kennedy Smith-have divided the children into two groups to avoid confusion and to make swimming, riding and sailing lessons easier: Group I includes the children in the six-to-nine age bracket: Group II. those aged five and under. A master chart details where which children are supposed to go on which days at what time. Despite her youth, Caroline Kennedy has one advantage over all the rest of the children: she has her own Secret Service man, one of whose unexpected...