Word: pints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indirect taxes were slashed on a wide range of items. Most spectacular was a cut of about 2$ on a pint of beer, which, observed Amory, is "a fitting celebration perhaps of the achievements of an exhausting decade." Purchase tax on cars, TV sets and cosmetics is to fall from 60% to 50% ; on washing machines, refrigerators and vacuum cleaners it drops from...
With a League average of 17 points, Harrington can vault into third place in the Ivy scoring race with a 35 point total. The pint-sized guard is not incapable of such an effort...
...helped by the fact that table tennis is one of the few sports that make sense being heard and not seen. Medick discovered this in college (Western Reserve) when he learned that the queer tap-tapping in the recreation room was a game; learning the rules. Medick bet a pint of ice cream that he could score the noise without a mistake...
...accidental; a 28-year-old model, lured like earlier victims by Glatman's pose-for-pay pitch, struggled free when he attacked her in a car off the Santa Ana Freeway, held him at bay with his own pistol until a state highway patrolman appeared. To police, the pint-sized ex-convict glibly announced he had strangled three other women, led police to the decomposed bodies of two of them on a sun-bleached strip of desert southeast of Los Angeles. He volunteered the 22 pictures, explained proudly how he settled on fine-grain Panatomic-X film for black...
...sons, one a partner in Goldman, Sachs and the other an executive at Owens-Corning Fiberglas. His chief recreation is his work; he shows only slight signs of slackening his pace. Says Weinberg, who takes only an occasional cocktail: "My grandfather drank half a pint of whisky a day and lived to be 90. Maybe at 75 I'll try that...