Word: pound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peters is a 6'5" 225-pound right-handed pitcher who lost two games in three years of high school ball -- both one-hitters. During his senior year at Nicholas School in Buffalo, N.Y., he hurled two consecutive no-hit games...
However, South Africa has the means and may have the will to keep white Rhodesia out of the abyss. It could stabilize Rhodesia's pound and might tide Rhodesian farmers and industrialists over to better times. If worse came to worse, South African troops could quell disorders in Rhodesia...
...last year, and Zukerman. who took a year off from school, are typical of the inexperience Yovicsin was talking about. Gunn has been starting at center all fall but ran into trouble last Saturday. Part of it came from a bad back and part from a 6-2 220-pound Princeton middle guard named Lee Hitchner...
...been a prolonged election campaign--a desperate race to make Labour the party of government in the minds of the British voters before death or sickness cut his slim majority out of power. At no time in that campaign has he appeared stronger than he does now: the pound has steadied and the balance of payments deficit may be halved in 1966. The Daily Telegraph polls show Wilson leading the Conservatives by over 7 1/2 per cent. "He has established himself," one political commentator said last week, "as the Indispensable...
Wilson may be expected, therefore, to take advantage of his present strength. While the electorate still remembers the Conservatives' 750 pound deficit of October 1964, and still blames them for the sterling crisis in 1965, Wilson will call an election. By the end of the year, he will attempt to secure a working majority in Commons for the broad measures which are necessary to revive Britain's economy...