Word: fells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston Sound was mostly about the courtship the BS was carrying on with those two whores with hearts of gold, Fame and Money. The big recording companies were pouring money into promotion of the scene before it had matured, feigning great interest in the musicians. The musicians, myself included, fell for it. Somehow in our hearts we all believed that there, way up high on top of the Big Rock Candy Mountain a recording contract was being written by genial producers and stamped with approval by God. Nobody really had any idea what was going on, although every rumor...
...fragment of metal that reportedly fell to earth in 1957 when a UFO exploded in the air above the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, was sent to a Washington laboratory for analysis. It had been an article of faith among many saucer believers that the fragment consisted of magnesium more pure than any ever made by man. The lab tests, said the report, suggested an earthly origin; the fragment contained more impurities than commercially produced magnesium...
...tended to help curb the nation's overexuberant economy by making credit so costly that businessmen will borrow and spend less. Because they operate in directly, such restraints at best take effect only after a time lag of weeks or months. The immediate impact fell on the securities markets, forcing bond yields up and stock prices down...
Aiming at Business. The last time funds drained out of lending institutions at such a rate was just before the crisis that bankers call the "1966 credit crunch." Bond prices crashed, the Dow-Jones average plunged 18%, and mortgage money grew so scarce that housing starts fell to a postwar low. Though some pessimists fear that all this could happen again, the banks have considerably more cash on hand in 1969 than in 1966. The Federal Reserve is also using its monetary weapons with more finesse...
Expecting its second rout in a row, a lethargic Harvard hockey team fell three goals behind a surprising Dartmouth team before surging back with a four goal final period in last night's 6-3 victory at Watson Rink...