Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...European governments will benefit especially from the boom. The British government eventually will be extracting about $1.2 billion a year in taxes from private producers operating in its area of the sea-in addition to its interest in the profits of British Petroleum, which is 48% owned by the crown. Norway will have to export the oil from its area, since the undersea terrain makes building a pipeline to Norway impossible. Two weeks ago, the Norwegian Parliament approved a proposal to pipe oil from its Ekofisk fields to Britain and gas to Germany. By 1980, sales of North...
Meanwhile, Brown virtually wrapped up the New England crown by trouncing second-place UMass, 15-7, yesterday in Providence...
Harvard can clinch both the Greater Boston League title and the Eastern League crown with a sweep of this week's games that feature two formidable opponents in Northeastern today and Cornell Friday and a consistent one in Army on Saturday...
...takers the opportunity to bet $5,000 against his horse in a head-to-head contest with Secretariat. A Cuban who trains Sham for New York Contractor Sigmund Sommer, Martin is banking on the fact that no son of Bold Ruler has ever won a Derby, or any Triple Crown race for that matter. The Derby distance of 1¼ miles is too great, some believe, for Bold Ruler's progeny. And if Sham is not the horse to prove that, perhaps it will be longer shots like Royal and Regal or Forego...
Superstitious horseplayers also remember the famous paired entry in the 1948 Derby. Coaltown, a lightly regarded horse, finished a strong second. Coaltown's stablemate, Citation, won the Derby, then went on to capture the Triple Crown-the last horse...