Word: halfe
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Died. Daniel Johnson, 53, Premier of Quebec since 1966; of a heart attack. Half Irish by birth and French Canadian by choice, Johnson studied for the priesthood but turned to politics, becoming a protege of the late autocratic Premier Maurice Duplessis. Johnson maneuvered a political tightrope on the issue of separatism for French-speaking Quebec by calling for national unity to calm down extremists, yet urging more autonomy for the province. He had planned to go to France later this month, and Charles de Gaulle intended to receive him as a full-fledged head of state...
Choosing Sides. Yet that rally faded quickly. Next day dozens of other big lenders, led by Chase's archrival, Manhattan's First National City Bank, pointedly cut their prime rates by only half as much, to 61%. Only a handful went along with Chase. By such action, commercial banks took sides for a most un-bankerlike battle over the cost of business borrowing. The struggle confronted Wall Street with renewed uncertainties. When the exchanges reopened after a regular Wednesday trading holiday stock prices went down, only to come back a bit at week...
...implacable enemies are no longer so easy to label"-that tags like "free world," "Communism," and "Iron Curtain" are becoming "increasingly inadequate." He steadily argues that there can be no true security for the world as long as such problems as poverty, racism and illiteracy remain unsolved or just half solved...
Doug Hardin, the captain, is a Group II quantum chemist who play an instrument called the viola da Gamba in a Baroque trio. He spent half of last summer working for the Atomic Energy Commission and half training with the U.S. Olympic Team at South Lake Tahoe, Calif. Doug likes the poetry and art of William Blake and has filled the walls of his Winthrop House room with prints of Blakian angels and devils. "Dauntless Doug," as Coach McCurdy calls him, is the team's foremost expert on the philosophy and psychology of running...
Erik Roth is used to being in the shadow of his roommates Shaw and Keith Colburn, who holds the University record in the half-mile. The quiet, rangy Minnesotan is famous for finding last-minute dates for the Saturday night parties which are rapidly becoming a cross-country tradition. "Elf" puts a lot of thought into his running and wrote a number of lengthy, detailed letters to his teammates last summer...