Word: brits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King and Queen, granted Mrs. Ambatielos a 45-minute hearing, whereupon she calmed down. Back in Greece, 19 of the prisoners (not including Ambatielos) were freed. At week's end the royal couple quietly returned to Greece. Said Frederika before she left: "The decision to come to Brit ain for a state visit was the right one, absolutely right. I am not worried about these few people who demonstrated. The memory I have is of the warm reception we were given on our arrival...
...week was a fine one all round for the U.S., whose amateur tennis fortunes have sunk abysmally low in recent years. Unseeded Billie Jean Moffit, 19, an impudent elf from California, trounced Australia's No. 2-seeded Lesley Turner, Brazil's No. 7-seeded Maria Bueno, and Brit ain's No. 3-seeded Ann Haydon Jones, and found herself playing Australia's top-seeded Margaret Smith in the women's finals. Not bad for a girl who could hardly see her own racket without her glasses on. No matter what happened next, little Miss Moffit...
...manufacture of compromising situations," concluded the judges' report last week, "must be regarded as one of the regular instruments by which the Soviet secret service seeks to suborn and enlist British agents who can furnish it with our state secrets." Thus was Brit ain's security system warned about Soviet Sigmunds. But would it ever get wise to British Veras...
What really had Washington and Bonn concerned was London's next move. Brit ain, excluded for now from the Common Market and plagued by serious unemployment, was eager for export markets anywhere; if one inch of large-diameter oil pipe was delivered to Russia, the NATO boycott would be broken. West Germany and Italy could no longer be restrained. Neither could France, which has a massive (500,000 tons), and mostly unused, annual capacity for pipe production, but which supports the U.S. completely on the allies' debate over the strategic value of Moscow's Big Inch...
Princeton will bring to Watson Rink tonight one of the best first lines in the League--John Cook, Jim Hyland, and Dave Hersey. Captain Austin Sullivan and Brit Mockridge are two able defensemen. But the Tigers lack adequate second-line support. In the goal, Bill Hill has been very good at times...