Word: packs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Army should post its share of first places. Jim Warner won the Heptagonal mile after being tripped to the ground a lap from the finish, while Harvard's Jim Smith stayed on his feet, and finished way back in the pack. Smith edged Warner for second place in the indoor Heps, but a similar surprise is unlikely tomorrow...
...Pack up all your cares and woes...
...again as the biggest profitmaker ever, and Ford raised its quarterly profits 39%. The airlines hiked their first-quarter profits 152%, led by Eastern Air Lines, which emerged from the red in 1964 to make an 8000% earnings rise in the first quarter. Fittingly, the steel companies led the pack; National was up 23%, U.S. Steel 43%, Youngstown 49%, Bethlehem...
Sweden's state-run tobacco company uses taxation to help discourage the spread of smoking. Taxes already account for 53? of the 65? that Swedes pay for 20 cigarettes, and Sweden will boost the levy another 8? in July. At 73? a pack (83% of that in taxes), Sweden will still rank below Denmark, where a 90% tax makes a pack of 20 cost 88?, the world's highest price for cigarettes. Swedish officials predict from experience that the boost will bring only a brief and shallow slump in sales...
...Boss Tweed's New York, judges, senators and city contracts were for sale, whisky and stocks were watered, refuse littered the streets, and night life featured everything from twelve-year-old chorus girls to a pack of trained fox terriers killing rats. In the West, road agents and fire swept the gold towns, gamblers and prostitutes cleaned up, and children entertained themselves by re-enacting the latest lynching. Such a climate is perfectly suited to the talents of the two characters who dominate the book. Giving up corporation law in New York for a squalid miner's wickiup...