Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signs of a monetary storm were all too evident. Buffeted by the Czech crisis and persistent clamor for an upward revaluation of the strong West German deutschmark (a move that was drawing money out of London), the pound had sunk to within a whisker of its post-devaluation low of $2.38¼ in foreign exchange centers. Harold Lever, financial secretary to the British Treasury and a key figure in selling the scheme abroad, noted: "If the agreement had not been achieved, there would have been a real danger of sudden and uncoordinated disintegration of the sterling area and a tremendous...
Died. Hans Christian Adamson, 78, author, aviator and, with Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, survivor of a famed World War II ordeal at sea; of a coronary occlusion; in San Francisco. Off course and low on fuel, a Flying Fortress with Adamson, Rickenbacker and six others aboard was forced to ditch in heavy Pacific seas. The airmen drifted on rubber rafts for 23 days before being rescued-an experience that led Adamson to write a number of books on sea survival and a biography of the World War I flying ace whose courage he had observed at first hand...
...burglar movie has 999 lives. And for good reason: the suspense of the well-planned caper, the guaranteed palm-sweating factor in window-ledge gymnastics, the romantic appeal of the Lone Wolf against Society. He Who Rides a Tiger is a low-budget British import that delivers all these with a handsome bonus as well-some real characters worth caring about...
...other hand. Deadfall suggests that the cat-burglar genre may have only 998 lives. The star of the film is Michael Caine (Alfie, The Ipcress File), who has made a profitable career out of playing ingratiating, low-keyed bounders. This time, he plays an ingratiating, low-keyed jewel thief who creeps up on baubles and boudoirs with equal ingenuity. It is the kind of role that Caine can do in his sleep. The difficulty is that by now much of the audience may be tempted to doze along with...
...that they make 25 per cent of their residential housing inventory available to the Leased Housing Program--a program to provide low-rent housing for senior citizens under present federal laws. (Harvard and M.I.T. have participated only nominally in this program...