Word: fondest
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Never had there been a first quarter like it. In auditoriums and armories across the U.S., shareholders last week heard reports of corporate profits exceeding their fondest dreams. According to early surveys, earnings for the first three months of 1966 rose to an annual rate of above $80 billion before taxes, nearly 10% over last year's record-smashing rate; so far, corporations have paid out about $20.6 billion in dividends. Among last week's shareholder sessions: > A.T.&T. had previously reported a record-breaking earnings pace of $468,684,000 for the three months ending...
Daugherty even did sit-ups himself-and the results exceeded his fondest expectations. Tackle Don Bierowicz left school last June weighing 211 Ibs., came back weighing a hard 231 Ibs. Middle Linebacker Harold Lucas weighed 257 Ibs. in June, was up to 286 Ibs. when practice started. Defensive End Charles ("Bubba") Smith, a 241-pounder in 1964, reported back...
...sense of proportion," flew to Cairo for consultations with a certain party. This week he flies on to New York to plead his case for independence at the U.N. Back home, Aden's powerful (22,000-member) Trades Union Congress, led by one of Nasser's fondest admirers, called for a general strike "by every laborer, merchant, student and farmer-a day for remembering our martyrs and hailing the exiled"-and at week's end police were forced to quell striking rioters with tear gas. In London the idea of restoring colonial control was repugnant...
...that 1 could do. Somehow you never forget what poverty and hatred can do when you see its scars on the hopeful face of a young child. I never thought then, in 1928, that I would be standing here in 1965. It never even occurred to me in my fondest dreams that I might have the chance to help the sons and daughters of those students, and to help people like them all over this country. But now 1 do have that chance. And I'll let you in on a secret-I mean...
...issue of the Jackson Clarion-Ledger. It is one of several hundred 'scare' stories which have appeared in Mississippi papers since SNCC announced 'Mississippi Freedom Summer' last December. The CRIMSON'S editing of my remarks seems to have been carried several steps further by the Ledger. It is my fondest hope that I will not be jailed for insurrection when I return to the Sovereign State--at least not on the grounds of this one half-whimsical remark. Though nothing I could say could possibly damage SNCC's reputation with the white Mississippi press. I should like...