Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mauritius, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Spain and Trinidad and Tobago. At first, Hong Kong lowered the exchange value of its dollar by a like amount, but the price of food (mostly imported from mainland China) and other goods promptly jumped between 7% and 20%, stirring so much discontent among the crown colony's largely Chinese population that some officials feared renewed political violence. At midweek, the Hong Kong government backed down by cutting the devaluation to a mere 5.7%. In Malaysia, which took the curious step of devaluing its old, but still circulating, sterling-backed currency though...
Brown has again captured the New England Intercollegiate soccer championship and the Ivy League crown. This is the third straight year that the Bruins have been New England champions and their fifth Ivy title in as many years...
...Cornell's Bill Robertson connected on 21 of 36 pass attempts for 254 yards and a heady 24-21 victory over Dartmouth. Robertson heaved the winning aerial late in the final quarter, a 12-yarder to Chris Ritter. The loss knocked Dartmouth out of the running for the league crown; Harvard, Dartmouth and Princeton have lost two games, while Yale is undefeated with one game left...
Ghosts. Within two days, all the names purged from the registration lists were quietly restored. Nonetheless, Clark dispatched 22 FBI agents to Gary. They began photographing records in Lake County's Crown Point courthouse, and made a name-by-name check of new voters in white neighborhoods. Soon they found enough evidence of registration irregularities for a Government suit charging discrimination...
...Harvard cross country team will try to add the Heptagonal Crown to the glories of its first undefeated season in ten years at New York's Van Courtland Park this afternoon...