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Black John the Conqueror is his name Black John the Conqueror, you're in his hand...
Died. Field Marshal Siegmund Wilhelm List, 91, the Nazi Blitzkriegmeister who for a time was one of Hitler's favorite field commanders; in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. The stony-faced strategist engineered the fall of Greece and Yugoslavia, earning the title "Balkan Conqueror." Though Hitler personally selected him in 1942 to take command of German forces in the Caucasus, List concluded that the Russian campaign was futile and was sacked. Given a life sentence as a war criminal, he was released after only four years in prison...
...deluge of Japanese imports is arousing an angry protectionist reaction in the U.S.?Tokyo's wartime conqueror turned No. 1 trading partner (see Symposium, page 90). Fully 30% of Japan's exports go to the U.S. As recently as 1964, Japan bought more than it sold in U.S. trade. Since then, the popularity of Sony TVs, Nikon cameras, Panasonic radios, Toyota and Datsun cars, and Honda and Yamaha motorbikes has turned the picture upside down. Materials-short Japan is a big and growing consumer of American coal, lumber and even soybeans, but in each of the past three years...
...with Canadians and led by All-American goalie Bruce Bullock. Clarkson is clearly the Crimson's toughest competition, The Golden Knights have beaten U.N.H. 3-2 and St. Lawrence twice en route to an 8-0-1 record thus far this season Their one tie came with Cornell's conqueror, R.P.I., 3-3 in overtime...
...relatively fewer babies born in the '30s are now of the child-bearing generation of the '60s; a trend toward smaller families helped to diminish the sum further. It was enough to encourage watchers of the population clock. They may not have forgotten, however, that William the Conqueror's original census in 1087 was called, with a certain prophetic ring, the Doomsday Book...