Word: gained
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...court as he dropped the first set 6-1 to Princeton captain Les Buck. But "the Rock" bounced back to steal the second set, 7-5, and extend the match. Demonstrating pin-point passing shots and back court hustle in the third set, Jarvis broke service twice to gain a 6-2 margin of victory...
...Kennedy campaign-and McNamara landed in the midst of a Pentagon-sized controversy. It was a curious gaffe on both sides. McNamara will not find it any easier now to pry money from the U.S. Congress, which provides 27% of the bank's funds. Kennedy will scarcely gain. He has always dissociated himself from the Johnson Administration and the Viet Nam war. Yet no official, save Dean Rusk, has been more closely associated with both than Robert S. McNamara...
Thirty minutes later Baker returned to duel Endrikat in the half mile. Baker edged into the lead in the last thirty yards to gain his second victory and set a Harvard varsity record...
...civilian labor force, close to the 14-year low of 3.5% that was reached in mid-January. Total employment hit a new high of 75.8 million, and joblessness among nonwhite workers fell from 7.2% in February to 6.9%, or 615,000. Business investment, led by an estimated 3½% gain in plant and equipment spending, was stronger in the first quarter than Government economists had expected. Housing starts, at their 1,500,000-a-year February rate, have risen 35% from last year's low. Retail sales, which climbed for the third straight month during March, were propelled...
...committee on Negro educational policy at Harvard has moderated its stand and is circulating a petition to gain bi-racial support for its proposals...