Word: jans
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...bledon's seeding committee, and two of whom were members of the U.S. Da vis Cup team that only a week before had lost ingloriously to tiny Ecuador in the American Zone finals. Illinois' black-browed Marty Riessen beat Denmark's No. 7-seeded Jan Leschly 1-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4. Then, in an 89-game, 3 ½-hr, marathon that ranks among the longest in Wimbledon history, Texas' crew cut Cliff Richey outlasted Australia...
When the annual step-by-step reductions begin next Jan. 1, U.S. consumers stand to pay lower prices for many imports-if inflation and middlemen do not soak up the tariff savings. The wholesale price of a $300 Japanese motorcycle will decline to $297 in 1968, finally level out at $286 in 1972. Other reductions will be substantial. Tariffs will fall from 1210 to 60 a gallon for beer, from $1.02 to 510 a gallon for Irish and Scotch whisky. Duties will come down 50% or more on such items as silk scarves (to 16%), diamonds over 1 carat...
...Next Jan. 31, if all goes according to schedule, a tiny, null palm-fringed speck in the Pacific, some 1,700 miles northeast of Australia, will become the world's newest nation. The Republic of Nauru, administered by Australia as a U.N. trust territory since 1947, will have a native population of 3,000, smallest of any nation state. But what Nauruans lack in numbers they make up with money. They have per capita income of about $4,000, compared with...
...three most quoted books on economics in the past decade, The Affluent Society, and he considers that to have been only a prelude to this more comprehensive work. Ever since he broadcast chunks of it in six widely discussed lectures on the BBC late last year (TIME, Jan. 6), it has been awaited by his fans on Capitol Hill and beyond...
Nicolson, now 80, happily did not wait that long to publish his notes and letters. The first distillation of his life time of civilized observation and sensitive introspection, edited by his son Nigel (TIME, Jan. 6), covered the fitful prewar years 1930 to 1939. It established Nicolson as a brilliant Boswell to his age and his peers. This is the swift and welcome sequel. Caught up by "the cataract of history" that was Britain's role in World War II, Nicolson now surpasses his earlier performance...