Word: giving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play the game, they hate to give you anything when you're alive. This year Ruth Gordon deserved her Oscar for best supporting actress in Rosemary's Baby, but Mia Farrow, the lady she supported, was not even nominated. The reason: the Academicians dislike her barefoot hippie attitudes. Barbra Streisand's performance in Funny Girl was far less skillful than Vanessa Redgrave's in Isadora, but the Academy has never been able to separate performer from politics. A picket sign once symbolized the town's hostility to her leftist leanings: "A vote for Vanessa Redgrave...
Britain's economy is considerably weaker than Jenkins admitted. Technically bankrupt, with foreign debts that greatly exceed its reserves of gold and foreign currencies, the country depends on international loans to support the pound. Sterling's devaluation 17 months ago was supposed to give Britain time to overcome its chronic trade deficit, the main source of its precarious financial condition. Instead, the country wound up with a 1968 trade deficit of $1.1 billion, and the red ink has continued to flow this year. Last week the Board of Trade reported a March trade deficit of $124.8 million...
...match will be held on the Concord Country Club course, the scene of the Greater Bostons last Tuesday. This should give the Crimson golfers an advantage since the course is difficult to master quickly...
Jack Purdy, who led last year's Harvard attack against Cornell with a 3 and 2 victory, will be leading the attack again this year from the number one position. Captain Bruce LoPucki, who usually plays that position, said that he wanted to give other members of the team a chance to play number one. "Besides, Purdy is really hot now," LoPucki said...
Although the season is only three weeks old, the team has already shown signs of sucess. In crucial wins over Boston University and Boston College, the Crimson, led by Bob Dorwart and Bill Kelly, have displayed the experience and aggressiveness which will give them the opportunity to improve on last year's showing in Omaha...