Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever his ultimate commencement status, Saturday night marked the peak of Levin's undergraduate career: the fruition of a long love affair with Mozart's music accorded a spontaneous standing ovation by the audience. And that is something very few soloists beside the Archbishop of Canterbury can count as part of their memories of Cambridge. One only hopes that circumstances do not abort Levin's promise even earlier than that they did that of Mozart...
...International Friendship League, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the Boston Park Department Office. The Offices of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. The Massachusetts State House, The Unitarian-Universalist Association, The Massachusetts Prison Association, Portia Law School and Calvin Coolidge College all sit on the peak of Beacon Hill. It is a tiny two-block neighborhood and for the most part, the institutions that reside there are devoted to enriching the lot of human beings. "So," says one Beacon St. resident, "how did Calvin Coolhitch Cowitch evah get up heah...
Lately the inability to compete has been reflected ominously in the nation's traditional trade surplus-the excess of exports over imports-which has been the cornerstone of U.S. global economic power since World War II. From a peak of $7 billion in 1964, that surplus shrank 41% to $4.1 billion last year. So far this year, the record has been even worse. The first-quarter surplus fell to an annual rate of only $731 million, the lowest in 31 years; during March, the U.S. trade balance actually ran $158 million...
...tourist spending abroad; rising costs of the Viet Nam war could forestall Government promises to curtail its spending overseas. Thus, it was hardly a surprise last week when the free-market price of gold -a seismograph of foreign anxieties over the dollar-inched up to $39.60 per oz., its peak since the April 1 reopening of the London gold market...
...only 3% of the total national output of goods and services-only half the proportion consumed by the Kore an War. The total defense budget today accounts for only 9% of gross national product, compared with 41% at the height of World War II and 13% at the Korean peak. More important, the end of the Korean fighting caught Washington with a huge oversupply of military goods. And to make matters worse, peace plans were unready; cutbacks in defense spending led to a recession with a 6% unemployment rate before the economy rebounded. This time, the Pentagon expects to taper...