Word: brits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Delta 57% Braniff 69% Air Canada 58% Aer Lingus 66% TWA 56% Laker 65% British Cal. 54% N.W. Orient 62% National 52% Pan American 59% Air India 37% Iran Air 58% Brit. Airways...
...booters rallied from a 1-0 halftime deficit after Amherst's purple-shirted sqad registered a sloppy goal early in the game before the Crimson got untracked. Aaron Brit crossed the ball to Robert Philbrick, who directed it into...
...longer so simple. Neither, unfortunately, is the novel. Into just 214 pages Clark crams, along with Margo's story, the restlessness, trials, past deeds and dreams of a score of other characters. There are Hannah Palz, a motherly musician-in-residence; Jim Pace, an unscrupulous real estate dealer; Brit Horton, a grizzled farmer; Mercy Grout, the local adventuress. There are also touches of Southern gothic in the Northern woods: a sex maniac murders and mutilates two hikers, and a motorcycle gang leaves one dead and another paralyzed...
Across the Atlantic, a stock market flurry was touched off in London by reports that British Petroleum had discovered a potentially huge field. It is in a lightly explored region 30 miles west of the Shetland Islands, which are off the Scottish coast and far distant from Brit" ain's already rich North Sea fields. BP, which shares the site with Chevron, Imperial Chemical Industries and the British National Oil Corp., confirmed that it had hit oil but reported that it did not know how much...
...allies Greece and Turkey over Cyprus. The fear was not that Viet Nam had fatally sapped America's physical strength or irretrievably tarnished its moral authority but that the bitter experience of recent events might somehow have traumatized America's will. A front-page editorial in the Brit ish weekly Manchester Guardian bluntly put the question that seemed to be on everybody's mind: "Will defeat in Viet Nam tempt the Americans to tackle their own problems and let the rest of the world go hang...