Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of the league-leading "Racing" club were furious. So were backers of the second-place "River Plate" club (nicknamed Los Millonarios because of the club's free-handed spending for players). So were the "Boca Juniors" (No. 1 fan: President Juan Perón). So was nearly everybody else...
...football strategist does little more than got his hands cold of a Saturday afternoon. The real mental battle takes place several hours later in the warmth and quiet of a projection room. Here is where the coach sifts the men from the boys, and alibis vanish at 82 frames per second...
...year-old protege of the H. O. Crisler Training School, football is a business. It is an inspiring one, or else he would not have accepted $8,000 per annum to work a 94-hour week during the fall, cutting out lunches to squeeze in the time, and a regular 40-hour week during the rest of the year...
While Israeli leaders are firmly oriented towards the West, there is a growing Communist minority in Palestine that may someday threaten the government. Controlling only about 20 per cent of the vote at present, this Communist segment balloons each time Israel is rebuffed by the United States and Great Britain. And in the economic sphere there is increasing agitation for an oil agreement with the Russian bloc. When Britain pinched off the flow of oil to Haifa's refineries in the hope of stalling Israel's military machine, Romania soon came forward with an attractive deal, proposing to supply...
...Charles E. Wilson, president of General Motors (which at week's end declared a year-end dividend of $2 per common share v. only 75? last year), could not see how "the results of the election will have any effect on the automobile business...