Word: happen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well as for devaluation." Since Wilson had consistently denied that he would ever devalue the pound, many Britons felt betrayed as well as disheartened. "I am quite shocked," said Sir Patrick Hennessy, chairman of Ford Motor Co. "I have personally told my business friends abroad that it would not happen. I could not believe that the government would go back on its statements...
...Larger Market. The ripples of the pound's plunge inevitably reach far beyond Britain. The U.S. had long pressed massive loans on Wilson in lieu of devaluation because it feared the effect on the dollar. "If it can happen to sterling," observed one Treasury consultant, "people are sure to ask, can't it happen to the dollar too?" Some probing speculation against the dollar this week seemed likely...
...inadequate. Most important, the country faces stiff economic competition abroad, especially from West Germany and the U.S., and could better channel its money into making more computers and the other equipment necessary to run a modern economy. "While we are preparing for a military war, which doubtless will never happen," says Jean-Jacques Servan-Shreiber, general director of the weekly magazine L'Express, "we are losing the industrial war." Nonetheless, the French Assembly, which has had many a battle over appropriations for the force, has given up fighting De Gaulle over it. Last week, while Papa de Gaulle viewed...
...junior from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, who turned down 100 scholarship offers to go to Yale-because, as his father put it: "Why go cabin class when you can go first class?" With Brian at quarterback, says a teammate, "You never know what's going to happen-but you know that you're not going to lose...
...well as Los Angeles. All of the new teams, regardless of geographical location, are lumped together into a West Division, while all the oldsters, including the Chicago Black Hawks, are regarded as East. Regular-season team schedules go from October through March with 74 games, and what will happen when the Stanley Cup play-offs finally begin some time next spring is almost too frightening to contemplate...