Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remotest dates and details; his material is so well organized that documents flash into his hands like a magician's rabbits. His hair wavy, his calm buttoned down, he cross-examines hostile witnesses with utter courtesy; he seems never to be trying to trip them up, only to help the jury get things straight. He shuns anger: "It's not a useful emotion." Yet in summing up, he pulls all emotional stops: his rhetoric sweeps and soars. Williams is inevitably compared with F. Lee Bailey, a more recently risen criminal lawyer. The main difference between them lies...
Beyond their relatively small deposits, the only monetary stake the airlines have had in the SST until now has been an agreement to help the Government recoup its investment by paying royalties once their planes are delivered. To be sure, the "progress payments" will not account for much of the two prototypes' estimated $5 billion cost, 90% of which will be paid by the Government. But the airlines' show of confidence could have some clout with an ornery Congress that includes liberal Democrats who fear the poverty program will suffer from...
Smugglers' Delight. All that will help Europe revive its money markets. Their present weakness not only helps to raise the cost of borrowing throughout Europe but indirectly contributes to a host of other problems, from industrial inefficiency to the technology gap. In freeing gold and the franc, De Gaulle also undercut the deeply ingrained instinct that has made France a nation of hoarders and smugglers. Restrictions on money leaving the country had sharpened the Gallic impulse to spirit cash into secret Swiss bank accounts or bury gold in gardens and mattresses. Les hirondelles, the friendly black marketeers, could scarcely...
...Terriers' poor play kept the Crimson in the game for two periods, but B.U. is too good a team to lose its first Eastern contest with no help from the opposition...
Coming back from a layoff, however, can be disastrous, especially against teams that have not been resting. That may help explain last Friday's drubbing by Penn, 76-56. Harvard took more shots and outrebounded Penn, but could not find the range...