Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first, second, third, and fourth marshals are, in that order: David H. Abramson of Eliot House and Jamaica Estates, N.Y.; John S. F. Daly of 142 Pearl St. Cambridge and Gladstone, Ill.; Ricardo A. Wilson of Adams House and Brooklyn, N.Y.; and Jerry Mechling of Leverett House and Columbus, Ohio...
...ill-fated night from the very beginning. The Bruins took an early 12-2 advantage, and led throughout the first half. Harvard's zone defense, which had worked so splendidly early in the season against Connecticut and Boston College, was listless and ineffective. And while the defense bumbled, the Crimson's shooting was a dismal 30 per cent...
...California coast, dropping its moisture when forced to climb over the mountains. Heavy rain fell, in some places 35 inches. Eastward all the way to Idaho, the high mountains got the worst drenching; the warm rain melted accumulated snow, adding another ten inches to the foaming runoff. Before the ill wind from Hawaii stopped blowing, it had started disastrous floods that cost nearly 50 lives and almost a billion dollars in damage...
...would by no means amount to a Goldfinger kind of raid on Fort Knox, where the bulk of U.S. gold is held. Still, the U.S. holds 36% of the world's gold supply, and France's move was bound to cause trouble just when the U.S. could ill afford it. The U.S. is committed by law to back its money with a 25% gold "cover." In the past year, the cover has dropped from 29.7% to 27.7%, largely because the Federal Reserve issued so much new money to service the expanding economy while the nation's gold...
Died. George Washington Oakes, 55, one of the New York Times's Ochs (Oakes) clan, who founded in 1947 an idealistic but ill-fated London weekly (American Outlook), later wrote a series of successful walking-tour guides to Europe; from injuries suffered in an auto accident that also killed his wife, Joanna, 49, and only son James, 17; near Brattleboro, Vt., when James, who was driving, lost control on an icy road as the family was returning to the Choate School from a precollege interview at Dartmouth...