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...record of sorts?four goals for Cheam, 82 for the opponents. The school paper summed up that unhappy season by noting: "At half, Prince Charles seldom drove himself as hard as his ability and position demanded." There were critics of his rugby style as well. In one pileup, a voice from the heap underneath Charles was heard imploring: "Oh, get off me, Fatty!" Academically, he was an average student, and in 1962 it was time to follow Prince Philip's path once again, this time to a spartan Scottish public school...
...York City social-service agencies have begun referring welfare recipients to taxi companies, whose shortage of 2,500 drivers has aggravated the chronic scarcity of cabs on city streets. Brokerage houses offer as much as $20,000 for senior clerks to help cope with Wall Street's paper pileup...
Forbidden Sales. The shrinking volume gave Wall Street a breather to dig into its massive paperwork pileup. Despite Wednesday trading recesses, which will continue at least for the rest of the month, the problem of undelivered securities and accounting confusion remains so severe that two organizations last week took drastic steps to overcome it. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the largest U.S. securities firm, imposed a "house rule" forbidding its salesmen to sell over-the-counter stocks for customers unless they first have physical possession of the certificates involved. The National Association of Securities Dealers, a trade group which polices...
...last period saw a foul in the draw give the Crimson a free throw which it efficiently turned into a score. Cain scooped up the ball from a big pileup in front of the goal and stopped just short of the crease to put it away...
...Pileup of Problems. Sheer disgust was Onganía's motive. From the moment Illia took over, his philosophy had been to sit quietly back and let the land of beef and wheat run itself. The only place it ran was downhill. Prices, wages, national debt and unemployment soared, and Illia's one really concrete action-cancellation of all foreign oil contracts-proved a disaster. Argentina, which has been almost self-sufficient in oil, must now import $100 million worth annually...