Word: mark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read as a chronicle of Kunen's incestuous relationship with his Random House contract. He treats the book like a colossal term paper, trying to get started and finding ever-fresh devices for procrastination. Like Mailer at the conventions he casts about rather self-consciously for figures to interview (Mark Rudd, Dean Deane, the station manager of WABC) and events to experience and record (a Red Sox game, a McCarthy rally). This processor for filling out the book does not work out nearly so badly as one would expect, though. The instant success that followed Kunen's first appearance...
...situation is similar to the plight of two wrestlers, John Imrie and Mark Faller, last winter. Since neither finished first or second in the Easterns, the athletic department would not pay for their trip to the NCAA...
...forced to dip into their reserves and sell dollars to maintain the official price of their own currencies. Despite all this, in stunning defiance of the world's financial experts, West Germany's political leaders at week's end ruled out any upward revaluation of the mark from its present official level of 25⅓?. "The decision," insisted Government Spokesman Conrad Ahlers, "is final, unequivocal and for eternity. The government now expects and hopes that the speculation over the mark will...
That is unlikely. In comparison with most other major currencies, the mark remains undervalued by about 8% to 10%; the disparity between it and the French franc may be as much as 15% or 20%. Speculation in marks may subside for a while, as happened after the Germans refused to revalue last November. But as before, it will probably resume after a few months. Until the mark moves up and the franc moves down, closer to their real value, financial markets will remain unsettled...
...discus is the only weight event in which Yale will be a threat. Its top man in the event, Tom Neville, has thrown the platter past the 170-foot mark this season, further than any Crimson thrower. Harvard captain Dick Benka, however, edged Neville for second place in the Heps with a throw of 169 ft. 1 in., barely a foot shy of Neville's best career throw...