Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fits his talents. As the youngest head of the Bank of England in two centuries, Cromer earned a reputation as an acerbic critic of Tory and Labor governments alike during his five-year (1961-66) governorship. His stature among bankers was enormous-and helped to raise the rescue funds overnight when eleven nations, including the willing U.S., came to the defense of the British pound at its moment of greatest peril...
Each morning, when Lord Thomson of Fleet wakes up in Buckinghamshire, he can never be quite sure how many newspapers he owns. Even if he knew the precise count before he went to bed, the figure could easily have changed overnight - such is the pace at which he has been accumulating papers. His latest acquisition is the Brush-Moore chain of twelve dailies and six weeklies scattered around...
Although this was Glacier's first lethal encounter with bears, park authorities immediately banned overnight camping and the Interior Department pondered new rules for camping out in national parks, while some Montanans demanded the eradication of the park's grizzlies (estimated at 100). Whatever the outcome, last week's twin tragedies were a reminder that the grizzly deserves his Latin name-Ursus horribilis...
Squelching Rumors. TV coverage in Milwaukee was exemplary. The three stations made a pact to withhold news of the riot overnight in order to give it a chance to cool down. When CORE Leader Cecil Brown Jr. called a press conference during which he spread a false rumor that an innocent Negro had been shot to death by police, the stations covered the speech but did not run it. "All that screaming is a lot more provocative than just quoting someone," says Carl Zimmermann, news director of WITI-TV. But like enterprising newsmen, the stations do not plan to waste...
...little credit have moved and are moving away and property is not kept up and is ruined. I have to say we Negroes did it all. We destroyed a fine neighborhood that others built. We got to quit blaming others and depending on the Government and expecting miracles overnight and now we got to work ourselves up. It's up to us and it's going to take time...