Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tshombe and the Portuguese government denied everything, but none of the disclaimers had any effect. Still ranting about "the satanic plans of the enemies of our country," Mobutu last week broke relations with Portugal and ordered all foreign countries, friend and foe alike, to close their consulates in the Congo's interior...
...good, but Cronkite was dubious. "News is a newspaper's business," he bluntly told KMBC, "and it isn't radio's business." He finally accepted, though, at double his U.P. salary, which, after ten years, was still only $125 a week. When the Korean war broke out, he was hired by CBS and made an impromptu TV debut giving a lecture on the war, complete with chalk and blackboard. He was such a hit that against his better judgment he was soon shifted to television news. "It was a time," he says, "when no self-respecting newsman...
...Boom." Baltimore's starters managed to complete only 23 games all season-four fewer than Koufax alone. That provided a lot of work for the Birds' bullpen-which was just fine with Myron Walter Drabowsky, 31, who has been shopping for a steady job ever since he broke into the big leagues...
Misfortune almost struck again in the final race as the hiking strap broke, dropping Underwood into the water. The game but wet senior clambered back on board in time to come in three boats ahead of the B.U. Challenger...
...last several years, by the way, the teams played to a 3-3 tie (1963), Harvard won a 3-0 decision (1964), and Harvard finally broke the touchdown drought against Colmbia last year...