Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asia and even Russia." Later, Bourguiba described his fellow Arabs' belligerence against Israel as "vain obstinacy" and Gamal Abdel Nasser's closing of the Gulf of Aqaba as "a monumental miscalculation." He has also shocked Moslems by recommending birth control and the end of the Ramadan fast. In fact, Bourguiba habitually does something that is exceedingly rare in his part of the world: he talks straight...
Economists, business, labor and financial leaders have all been sounding the same theme-but mostly in a quieter key. Abruptly and decisively, coping with inflation has become the prime concern of U.S. businessmen. What was only a nagging specter short months ago is fast gathering ominous substance. Automakers have joined the parade of summer price increases that now reach across the economy from food to steel, from appliances to plastics. General Motors raised the average price of its 1968 autos by $110, or 3.6% above the 1967 level. Strikebound Ford lifted its car prices by $114 (3.9%), Chrysler...
Part of the fuel for the surge comes from the Federal Reserve Board, which has been pumping credit into the economy so fast that it has expanded the money supply at an annual rate of 7.7% so far this year, against only 2.2% during the 1966 tight-money squeeze. Looming inflation should impel the Fed to tighten up soon, but if it does many financial men fear the Treasury will be hard put to borrow $10.6 billion before year's end to pay the nation's soaring bills. "I think the Fed has been had," said former Chief...
Monro, Master John Finley, and at least one other University official met with Colonel Pell and advised him that he was acting wrongly; he ignored the advice and held fast to his own judgment...
...backfield, junior Will Stargel, an exciting runner, is replacing Bobby Leo at halfback. Stargel is fast and shifty. But he has two problems--he fumbles frequently and he is prone to injuries...