Word: half
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both Harvard and Columbia enter the match with 4-0 record. The Crimson must rely on good Bill Meyers and center half Solomon Gomez to outplay their Columbia counterparts...
Since right wing Russ Reil has recovered from his pulled muscle, Gomez probably will be shifted back to the center half position and will be called on to trigger the Crimson offensive line. Solomon is one of the best feeders in the nation, Munro said...
...first half of the season, it looked as if Arts and Letters was destined to become one of history's great also rans. Paul Mellon's wiry three-year-old lost by a neck to the magnificent California chestnut, Majestic Prince, in both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. The Prince was favored to take the Belmont Stakes and thereby become the first thoroughbred to win racing's Triple Crown since Citation turned the trick in 1948. But the race was not even close: guided by the steady hand of Braulio Baeza, Arts and Letters whipped Majestic...
...100th birthday next year. The notion ironically harks back to the freely given "Dubček shifts" that workers put in during their brief springtime of freedom. Otherwise, the occupation regime's tinkering with the economy has made the situation worse. A 16% wage increase in the first half of 1969 only increased the rate of inflation. Now the regime is trying to freeze wages and prices, but is applying the controls gradually to avoid antagonizing the populace. Since there are no visible results, the effort succeeds only in angering everyone...
...king's men-the 300,000 U.S. cotton farmers-will harvest little more than 11 million bales this year, compared with 18 million in 1955, when the U.S. produced half the world's supply. That proportion is now down to a fifth-and the U.S. cotton industry is under assault from growers in Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey. Last year the U.S. exported only 2.7 million bales of cotton, compared with 4.2 million...