Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arts And Letters had won--some say stolen--the Belmont Stakes. The odds against him were eight to five. The policemen that day were Majestic Prince, Prime Fool, Distray, Dike, and Rooney's Shield. A medieval lot. The best of this assortment was found wanting by five and a half lengths when the little terror romped across the finish...
According to a Globe report, about half of the 21 freshman who were accepted into Harvard as well as Navy ROTC, have chosen to attend Harvard rather than another institution where Navy ROTC exists. The Navy had informed them in exists. The Navy had informed them in May that it would not offer a freshman naval ROTC program this year. Further Navy plans have not yet been announced...
Only 40 of the over 500 applicants are accepted--approximately half are interested in a field of the humanities and half in politics and economics. Among the noted members of the politics and economics section this year are Carlos Garcia, Justice of the Argentinian Supreme Court; Hannes Androsch, member of the Austrian Parliment; Luke Kai-hsin Chin, editor of "Chinese Communist Affairs" and Mohaned Berjaoui, Lebanese ambassador and former member of Parliament...
...others, the losses are all too genuine. A Portland, Ore., printer borrowed heavily to buy a new issue of a computer manufacturer at 5. When the stock dropped to 21, his loan was called, forcing him to sell. Altogether, he lost about half of his $2,000 investment. Sylvan Fry, 53, a manufacturer's agent, began investing for the first time last winter, buying oil, chemical and computer issues. On paper he has already lost $6,500 of the $11,400 that he started with. George Ratliff Jr., 39, a Pittsburgh steel-company engineer, began 1969 with a portfolio...
...million in state and federal money, the agency set out two years ago to re-equip the line with 620 fast, air-conditioned Budd Co. cars. Deliveries, which began last fall, have lagged 25 weeks behind schedule, and the cars have developed many bugs. Every day, more than half of the 94 cars accepted so far have been out of service because of mechanical breakdowns. The flashy Budd cars that do run have become prime targets for rock-throwing and BB-shooting vandals in the slums that trains pass through...