Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York and Washington - and the loss of those games is likely to be reflected in gate receipts. To be sure, the Twins and White Sox will have only each other to beat for the western-division championship. But, says Minnesota Owner Calvin Griffith: "Teams have won pennants before -and lost money doing...
...last few months, he has been conducting a bitter, almost one-man campaign designed to remove Harold Wilson as Prime Minister. This reached a climax in a front-page editorial in the Daily Mirror last month. Written and signed by King, it declared that Wilson's government had lost "all credibility, all authority" and had brought Britain to its "greatest financial crisis...
...Lost in the Jungle. The nephew of the Mirror's founder, Lord Northcliffe, King was long thought to be a major stockholder in the newspaper. In fact, he owns only 45,960 shares of a total of 35,750,000 outstanding. In addition, his wife and two of his sons have 13,905 shares. Together, the family's holding is worth some $130,000 in common stock and less than 1% in preferred stock. King is taking his reversal with his customary insouciance. "I removed my predecessor as chairman, Mr. Bartholomew," he reminded people. "You know what Fleet...
...Esalen Institute. The way to change society, he now feels, is "to subvert it from the inside with the power of love and caring." He thus considers the hippies ineffective for dropping out, the activists wrong for "alienating the older generation from the younger." The campus revolutionaries "are so lost in their own idealism that they forget that those with other ideals are people too. Students must wake up and realize that what they want is not to tear down the universities?but to embrace each other...
...electron beams are generated inside a TV picture tube. But Schumacher's gun has a special capability: its electron beam maintains its focus and power for a short distance after it squirts out of the gun barrel and into the atmosphere. In earlier experimental cutters the beam lost its power almost immediately in collisions with air molecules; the target material had to be placed inside a vacuum chamber along with the rest of the gun's components. And since the chamber's size was always limited, so was the size of the job it could handle...