Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...move was wise. Already that day, on news of the growing gold crisis, the Dow-Jones industrial average had fallen 11.32 points for its sharpest drop in 18 months; on the New York Stock Exchange, declines in stock prices outnumbered gains by 10 to 1. Next day, while London's market was shut down, New York opened on schedule, and in an equally busy day the industrials regained half of what they had lost. Most of the activity was caused by nervous small investors. Wall Street regulars took the gold panic with remarkable calm in the knowledge that while...
...Class. B.E.A.'s first-class passengers on the lucrative London-Paris run will be the chief beneficiaries of the change in the hotel's ownership. According to Forte's estimates, Airport Catering Service will be picking up nearly a third of the top-class beds in Paris (840 out of 3,000). "We believe the days when you could offer air transport only are over. Now you have to offer a complete travel service," says Ron Spencer, B.E.A.'s representative on A.C.S.'s board. For B.E.A., the Paris hotels are a natural. The LondonParis route...
Harvard crews had been undefeated in the past and three Crimson heavy-weight contingents had won at Henley--in 1914, 1939, and 1950. But never before had a tame combined the two achievements, and never before had the light-weights been in London together with the heavies...
Moreover, the entire crew was aware that a victory over Yale could very well mean a trip to London. There was a lot of talk of Henley because that June was the 45th reunion of Harvard's 1914 crew, the first American boat to win the British classic...
...June 22, a 28-man contingent of the two crews flew to London...