Word: buying
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...economies by federal branches, the U.S. Naval Academy last week struck a doughty blow for frugality, announced that it will sell its $1,750,000, 876-acre dairy farm outside Annapolis, along with a greengrass fleet of 377 cows, 262 calves and four bulls. Finding that it can buy milk for $84,000-a-year less than it costs to produce it, the Navy plans to dry up its 55-year-old milk run by June...
Harvard's offense played its usual game, plenty of passing and no shots in the net. Even high-scoring Larry Palmer couldn't buy a goal...
...Anglophile, majored in English literature at Barnard, wrote her senior thesis on T. S. Eliot, and went back last year to find a better England. It was L'Etoile and Ad Lib and the trattorias in Soho - and a place on King's Road where she could buy a pair of bell-bottom slacks by Foale & Tuffin that made her something of a trend setter back home in New York...
Fear in Manhattan. Perhaps nothing illustrates the new swinging London better than narrow, three-block-long Carnaby Street, which is crammed with a cluster of the "gear" boutiques where the girls and boys buy each other clothing. Nine of the shops for boys on Carnaby Street are owned by Designer John Stephen, 29, who last week took his tattersall shirts, Dutch boy caps, form-fitting pants and vinyl vests to Manhattan to put the fear of God into parents there. As for the girls, the most In shop for gear is Biba's boutique in Kensington, which...
...began one of the most bizarre incidents in the U.N.'s often bizarre history. Moussa L. Keita of Mali, president during April of the 15-nation council, simply refused to call a meeting. In league with other Black African nations opposed to Ian Smith, Keita was trying to buy time, and to draw up some stiffer amendments calling for total mandatory sanctions that would be enforced mainly by the British. Growing more impatient by the hour, U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg met with British Representative Lord Caradon and delegates from nine other member nations, and the group staged...