Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Play Tough. The Knicks are probably the best-balanced team ever to take the court, but Reed is the consistent leader. The immense (6 ft. 10 in., 240 Ibs.) pivot man tops the team in scoring (24.3 points per game) and rebounds (312), and is the key man in a defense that has allowed the opposition an average of only 101.1 points per game (the Knicks are averaging...
Fickle Sandwiches. What is the incentive to leave? The three who are definitely getting out are frank about it: their three-year contracts will soon be up, and they think their pay is lousy ($750 to $1,500 per week). As Judy Carne puts it, "They're very mean at Laugh-In with their money. You can't go into a toy store that doesn't have Laugh-In dolls-even Laugh-In bubble gum. Somebody is cleaning up on us. Now they have Laugh-In restaurants, Fickle-Finger-of-Fate sandwiches." The dropouts are no slouches...
...swell the structure to second-head proportions. Hanging down at strategic intervals (at the temples, around the ears, and down the back of the neck), are separate, curling tendrils of hair. The whole thing may look like the work of a bird who flunked nest building. Yet at $17.50 per neglect-job at Kenneth's Manhattan salon, the elegant lady can-and must-look exactly like a charwoman, or the Char, as the style is also called...
...rise in nickel prices had been expected, but the increase from $1.03 per Ib. to $1.28 was the largest in this century. Inco rested its case for the steep rise as much on its plan to spend $600 million for expansion by 1973 as it did on the wage increases. Even without the strike-induced shortage, the world demand for nickel has been outpacing supply, and the imbalance could continue for several years...
...same day as the nickel increase, major U.S. producers of lead lifted their prices by 1/2?per Ib., to 16?, the sixth increase this year. Almost immediately, General Battery Corp. said that automotive and industrial batteries, which contain much lead, would go up. 5%. The higher lead prices reflect greater world demand for the metal and a paucity of new supplies...