Word: grand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Sebring Twelve-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance and the N.C.A.A. Swimming Championships from Dartmouth College...
...understood the situation best, the spectacle was appalling. "The world is lost," said London Economist John Vaizey. "A rise in the price of gold is inevitable now. It's like a grand opera of which the overture is over, and we're in the first act of a world depression." A usually unemotional Swiss banker warned that "in participating in gold speculation, capitalists are doing their best to destroy the capitalist system. If they win the battle in London, the probability is that the whole present international monetary system will come crashing down." French Economist Jacques Rueff...
...three Paris landmarks comes from the sale by their present owner, Madame Francois Dupré, to a British chain: Airport Catering Service, a joint venture of British European Airways and Hostelry Magnate Charles Forte. Winning out over Pan American's Intercontinental hotel chain and the Grand Metropolitan hotel group of Britain with a bid of about $25 million, A.C.S. carried off three jewels worthy of crowning anyone's hotel empire...
...proves Babe's most successful instinct in Coriolanus and the device most fully resolved; the harrowing ending is played simultaneously on stage and film; Babe requires a dual concentration from the audience for the first time, thus magnifying the power of Coriolanus's death and achieving quite literally a grand finale, in that we must watch a rectangle more than 20 feet high by 20 feet wide...
...opening day of the Grand Challenge Cup, Harvard's heavies easily defeated the London Rowing Club. The next day, July 3, the Crimson faced its toughest challenge--in the Isis Boat Club, representing Oxford. The inspired Americans won by a length...