Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effect of Belaúnde's leadership was to make 1964 the best year ever for Peru's economy. Exports-chiefly fish meal, cotton, copper, sugar and iron ore-jumped 25% to a record $665 million, the G.N.P. rose an impressive 12%, and the sol (3.7?) remained one of South America's most stable currencies. On Lima's outskirts, General Motors is completing Peru's first auto-assembly plant, a $5,000,000 operation that will enable Peruvians to buy autos without paying duties that go to 110% on most U.S. models. Fourteen other automakers...
...crack or bump that could cut a precious hundredth of a second from his time, calculating the height at which he would take each of the 16 corners. Then, cautiously, Nash began to feel out the course. Scorning a steering wheel, handling the runner ropes with the iron hands of a jockey, he zipped through the first run in 1 min. 18.49 sec., the second in 1 min. 18.96 sec.-enough to give him a ⅓sec. lead over Rinaldo Ruatti in the No. 1 Italian sled...
Kentucky Windage. On the Pebble Beach Country Club's seventh hole, normally an easy 110-yd. wedge shot, Eddie Merrins scored a hole in one-with a No. 3 iron. Paul Harney, one of the longest hitters on the pro tour (he once belted a ball 430 yds.), swung his driver twice (once on the tee, once on the fairway) on a 367-yd. hole and still wound up 30 yds. short of the green. Taking Kentucky windage on the oceanside 18th, Palmer sent a No. 3 wood angling out to sea, smiled happily as the ball blew back...
Student government is an issue of burning interest to every student at Harvard. The iron hand of Administrative despotism lies heavy on our shoulders. The time has come when we students must take the future into our own hands and mold the world that will be ours. No better way exists than to begin with effective and powerful student government, here...
Despite tremendous differences between educational policies on the two sides of the Iron Curtain, an eminent Hungarian scientist termed his visit to Harvard a "significant step in alleviating East-West tensions through greater cooperation between the scholars of the two countries...