Word: null
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Council of Economic Advisers set oft" on a round-the-clock push to get out a "white paper" that would smother the steel companies' arguments for price increases. Administration lawyers got to null drafting an Emergency Steel Act that would roll back the announced increases for go days...
...seemed hopeless: he needed two birdies merely to stay alive for a three-way play-off with Player and Finsterwald. Then, at the 16th green, Palmer got his miracle: he pitched a 50-yd. chip into the cup for a birdie. Keyed up now, he stepped up to a null putt on the 17th -and banged it straight into the hole for his second straight birdie. On the 18th green, both Player and Palmer played cautiously for pars, solemnly shook hands and-the tension broken-began to laugh. For the first time in the Masters' flamboyant history, three players...
...border arranged between British India and Tibet in 1914, and named after the head British negotiator. Running across N.E.F.A. from Bhutan to Burma, the line set the border at the watershed at the crest of the highest mountains. But the Red Chinese declared the McMahon Line an "illegal, null and void" product of "British imperialism," claimed that the actual border ran along the southern foot of the mountains...
...insurer, is willing to bet money on this sweeping proposition. Starting this week in California, it will use grades to sort out safe drivers from bad risks in the 1640-25 age group. Insurance companies normally raise premiums by some 200% to 400% on a car driven by a null single male (girls are considered more conservative drivers, pay no extra premium). Now State Farm Mutual will cut insurance premiums by $10 to $100 on cars driven by unmarried males in eleventh grade through college, provided that they rank in the top 20% of their classes, have B averages...
WITH the publishing industry churning out a flood of un, anti, null- and non-books, it has not been a good year for genuine books. But a few emerged-although perhaps no single volume could pass the Robinson Crusoe test beloved of Sunday supplements (Which ten books, apart from a guide to edible fungi, would you take with you if cast away on a desert island...