Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tournament victory alone would have avenged Harvard's loss last year to Amherst, but the Crimson was determined to dispatch the Lord Jeffs as quickly as possible through individual matches. Oxford upset Mike Pelletier, hailed as Amherst's up-and-coming sophomore in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals, Jarvis eliminated Steketee, and the Levin-Jarvis doubles tandem took both Lord Jeffs. "I can't say I didn't expect this," said Levin Sunday night," "but I'm almost ashamed at our being so ruthless...
...Guard Insults. Despite this help, North Korea is anything but a Soviet satellite. Kim has refused to dispatch a delegation to Moscow's conference of the world's Communist parties this June. He remains equally cold to the Chinese, neglecting to send even a routine message of greetings to Mao's Ninth Party Congress, currently in progress in Peking. He has a good excuse: the Chinese barely acknowledged North Korea's 20th-anniversary celebrations last year, and during the carefree days of Red Guard rioting Kim was assailed as a "disciple of Khrushchev...
...increases in Britain are imposed with guillotine-like dispatch. Disclosing few, if any, details in advance, the government presents the bad news in its annual budget and gets quick approval from a compliant Parliament. In what has become a national guessing game, Britons start hedge-buying weeks beforehand on goods and services that they expect to be hit by new taxes. They are urged on by shop-window posters that read "Beat the Budget." Because of Britain's economic difficulties, the guessing in recent years has been over where-not whether-the tax ax would fall...
...Student-Faculty Advisory Council voted yesterday to have its subcommittee on the University and the City study the problem of rents in Cambridge "with all possible dispatch...
...executes a gold heist--crushing his adversaries and winding up in a clinch with Angie Dickinson. Along the way, he meets with no serious obstacles. In Support Your Local Sheriff, a food picture by Burt Kennedy, James Garner cleans up the town and wins the girl with computer-like dispatch, supremely faster, smarter, and better looking then anyone--and well aware...