Word: peakings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This selfish British mercantilism has been remarkably effective in protecting and promoting British manufacturing. British exports to the Colonies have multiplied twelvefold since the beginning of this century, from £344 thousand to £4.2 million in the peak year of 1771, while American exports only tripled, to £1.3 million. The actual trade deficit with England was running at an annual rate of £1.6 million in the first half of this decade. And the American dependence was real enough, with Britain and its West Indian colonies taking most of colonial exports?tobacco, flour, fish, rice, indigo, in that...
...year terms as Overseers are Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman '62 (D-N.Y.); Jill Ker Conway, president of Smith College; Lewis Thomas, president of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Joseph Pulitzer Jr. '36, editor and publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; and Leo Goldberg '34, director of the Kitt Peak National Observatory...
Because Hays was carrying on with his Ohio-based secretary, Pat Peak, whom he visited weekly and finally married last April, many of his staffers did not figure that he was also dallying with Liz. They simply concluded that he was passing her round to his friends in Congress in return for political favors. Yet Hays did not try to give the impression that he was celibate when in the capital. Most mornings, a former aide says, he would brag to his staff of his purported conquests of the night before...
...office phone). She says they had sex at her apartment once or twice a week. "He favored Monday or Tuesday, and I wasn't free to sneak in anyone else until he went home to Ohio on Thursdays." During this period Hays also had a liaison with Pat Peak, his longtime secretary in his home office in Flushing, Ohio...
...chose to tell her story after Hays decided to marry Pat Peak and did not invite her. "I was good enough to be his mistress for two years but not good enough to be invited to his wedding," she pouted. To make matters worse, "I was hoping after the marriage he wouldn't make so many demands. But I've had to see him four times since the wedding-twice intimately...