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Word: drives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outlook for Cambridge is still unclear. The Metropolitan District Commission predicted last night that the river would not overflow its banks in Cambridge, and that Memorial Drive and Soldiers' Field Road will probably remain open...

Author: By J. MACKENZIE Fallows, | Title: Record Rains Swell Charles; May Cause Flooding by Friday | 3/19/1968 | See Source »

...quarterback, and Billy Steers was second only to Centre College's immortal Bo McMillin as America's top signal-caller. To offset Horween's kicking skill, Oregon had Skeet Manerud; and fullback Hollis Huntington, already a veteran of two Rose Bowl games, could more than match Church on brute drive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The History Of Harvard Sports | 3/16/1968 | See Source »

...drive his cars, Granatelli has probably the most impressive team of racing drivers ever assembled: four men who among them have won three 500s and three Grand Prix championships. The four are the U.S.'s Parnelli Jones, 34, the 1963 Indy winner; England's mustachioed Graham Hill, 39, the 1966 winner and Grand Prix champion in 1962; Scotland's flashy young Jackie Stewart, 28; and Scotland's 32-year-old Jim Clark (TIME cover, July 9, 1965), who won the 500 in 1965 and has more Grand Prix victories (25) to his credit than any other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Bombs for the Brickyard | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

...again it was fed by doubts about the strength of the dollar and the international monetary system. On the London market, gold purchases reached some $300 million, many times the nor mal demand. Because the fortunes of sterling and the dollar are closely linked, that was enough to drive the value of the pound down to a record low of $2.392, despite efforts by the Bank of England to prop it up. (In Montreal, quotations in 9210 Canadian dollars registered a comparable price.) Gold sales also soared in Paris, Zurich and Frankfurt. Everywhere, buyers were betting that the U.S. would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finance: Symptoms of Malaise | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

Deferred Profitability. The Century computers are adaptable for big companies that need highly sophisticated computers, but NCR will direct its main sales drive toward smaller businessmen -banks with less than $5,000,000 assets, even corner drugstores and service stations-who up to now thought that they could not afford a computer. NCR will either rent them one or else ser vice at one of its data-processing centers the records that shopkeepers compile on other NCR business machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Down to the Corner Store | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

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