Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wasn't without its bright spots for the Crimson. Doug Hardin was voted the meet's outstanding performer for his 8:56.4 two-mile, which broke the Hep record of 9:05.2 Baker set last year...
Responsible and brainy, Morton has lately harbored an anguished heart. He painfully broke with Lyndon Johnson on the Viet Nam war, looked with dismay at Dirksen's troglodyte image, and saw his party heading for a replay of the 1964 Goldwater debacle. George Romney bored him, Charles Percy faded, and Morton talked up Nelson Rockefeller to his friends. Lately he had become resigned to having a Richard Nixon ticket. Optimistic friends hoped that with an influx of G.O.P. moderates next year, Morton might even oust Dirksen from the Senate leadership. An innately shy man, Morton saw little hope...
...coast of the Arabian Sea between the two countries and inhabited chiefly by flamingos and wild asses. Pakistan and India fought a number of sharp engagements in the Rann in early 1965, but agreed to submit the conflict to binding international arbitration before a larger border war broke out a few months later over Kashmir. The tribunal turned down Pakistan's bid for the area but, in a 2-to-l decision, confirmed its claim to two tiny areas that jut into Pakistan and a small northwest corner where Pakistani officials for years have administered justice...
...Fidel Castro is not sending anyone because he bristles at Moscow's conservative line in Latin America. Among the Asian parties that are staying away are the Japanese, who are hoping for a rapprochement between their party and China. Revisionist Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, who broke with the Cominform in 1948, was not even invited. Neither were the Burmese, Thai, Malaysian and Indonesian Communists, probably as punishment for their closeness with China...
...victory was the closet win that the J.V. has had this year and broke the team's four-game losing streak. Its record now stands at 11-4-1 with only Andover and Yale remaining on the schedule...