Word: default
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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YUGOSLAV BOND PAYMENTS on $25 million worth of dollar bonds, in default since 1939, will begin soon with $500,000 annual payments under "temporary arrangement." Yugoslavia seeks to restore its credit rating so it can borrow privately in U.S. money market...
...freedom for speculation or experiment. If the College does not wish to find itself frozen to a travesty of the House system, it should look carefully at the possibilities of bringing commuters into residential Houses. The opportunities opened by Quincy and Leverett Towers should be exploited, not lost by default; the obstacles must be overcome, not used as excuses for doing nothing...
Defending champion Dell of Yale failed to show up for his first singles match Friday. He wired that he had overslept and would be two hours late, but the tournament committee decided they could not delay the match that long, and Dell was declared in default...
...wide-awake and on the scene for the doubles, however, as he and Tom Freiberg won that title, defeating the pick-up Crimson team of Fred Vinton and Bill Wood in the final. Yale nearly had to default this one, too, as Freiberg, viewing the singles from atop the M.I.T. tennis shack, had difficulty getting down from his perch for the doubles. He finally made it, though, and the match went...
...this was too much for Judge Malcolm E. Douglas. He found Watson in contempt of court, and imposed an unusual penalty: he held Watson in default in the libel suit-which, in effect, ruled him guilty of libel and barred him from participating in the trial or the determination of damages. Judge Douglas said he would determine the damages to be assessed against Watson following a jury trial of the case against the Post-Intelligencer's publishers (Hearst) and three restaurants...