Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more shocking than the Series outcome was last week's prediction by CRIMSON president Robert J. Samuelson '67 that the Orioles would win in four straight games. Samuelson, not known for his sports acumen, said, "I will not be modest about this achievement: I think it absolutely extraordinary...
Lord Thomson of Fleet, Toronto-born owner of 125 newspapers and 150 magazines from the Austin Daily Herald to the Bangkok Post, has long sought one crowning jewel: a major London daily. The Times of London, a paper of rich tradition but modest circulation (286,000), has long needed one sterling resource: money. Last week the British press lord got together with the Establishment's most authoritative daily (motto: "For Top People") in a deal that brings new prestige to 72-year-old Thomson and fresh power to the 181 -year-old Times...
That show ran on NBC for 14 years and won a number of prestigious awards be fore NBC capriciously dumped it. It turns out now that the kids' loss is the grownups' gain. The opening Experiment and the seven others to follow are modest masterpieces that even the least scientifically minded viewer can find clear and compelling...
...Congress finds himself faced with an equivalent issue on civil rights as the white backlash becomes more and more a force to be reckoned with. "Slow down," says Senator Mansfield, and one more presumed supporter of Negro demands goes down the drain. The 1966 civil rights bill--a modest attempt to do away with a really minor part of a much vaster problem--gets buried in the process...
...that these businessmen could have forgone the necessity of increasing prices." But the fact that automakers would up prices on their 1967 models had long been accepted by insiders. Last week Germany's Volkswagen led the way, announcing that the East Coast port-of-entry price for the modest Beetle would jump from $1,585 to $1,639. Then, in rapid order, came Ford, with an average $107 hike; Chrysler, with a $92 boost, and General Motors, with a lower and more competitive $53 increase...