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...those fans of blood-and-guts hockey, tonight's Brown game could be a real treat. The erratic Bruins--by no means to be confused with the local variety--come to town hoping to knock off the Crimson hockey machine...
...will in the main be highly beneficial for Americans. Devaluation should increase sales and profits of many U.S. companies and create more jobs in industries concerned with foreign trade. The prospects: U.S. EXPORTS will drop in price around the world. The Boeing Co. figures that devaluations and revaluations could knock the equivalent of $2.5 million off the $25 million cost of a 747 jumbo jet to some foreign airlines. F.S. Holway, president of the Coal Exporters Association of the U.S., calculates that an 8% devaluation would have the same effect as a price cut from...
...midst of a quiet evening at his country home near the Northern Ireland town of Strabane, Senator John Barnhill, 65, a prosperous Protestant businessman, answered a knock at the door. He was shot dead by three members of the Irish Republican Army, who had crossed over the unguarded border from Eire a few hundred yards away. The gunmen then ordered Barnhill's wife out, placed a bomb near the body and blew up the house. Thus began another normal week in Ulster...
...highrise, low-rent housing projects in the 1950s. Built to literally lift the poor above the grime of slums, they instead deteriorated into vertical slums that now contribute so much to the congestion, isolation and ugliness of U.S. cities that urban planners often must wish that they could just knock them down and start over from scratch. St. Louis will soon do just that...
...followed their mentor to Mexico City, recall that the Kid's instruction did not end in the ring. Stopping one of his charges in the street, Rapidez would pick out another boy twice his size and say: "I'll give you a peso if you can knock him out. I mean cold." Nápoles figures that he won 20 cold pesos that way. Ramos was less fortunate. Son of a police sergeant who sired 53 children, he remembers: "Every time I got ready to punch a kid, the kid would...