Word: pound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Homecoming. Until that time-which may be weeks off-the Kennedy Administration intends to keep Powers strictly to itself.* Back home in Pound, Va., Oliver Powers confided to a friend that his son had lost about 22 Ibs. during his 21 months in Soviet jails, but that he seemed to be in good health and excellent spirits...
...questions. Nor did anyone last week seem to have any idea of what to do with him. For a while, at least, he will have no need to worry if the CIA decides he is eligible for some $50,000 in back pay ($2,500 a month). And around Pound they are already talking of arranging some sort of community celebration for him when he comes home...
...golfing boom, as new courses, opening at the rate of 60 a year, are jammed with wild-swinging enthusiasts. There is the bed boom, as people leave their straw mats for Western-style mattresses. There are skiing booms, boating booms, bowling booms, appliance booms. Cities throb with the pound of pile drivers pushing new office buildings and apartments skyward. Tokyo's streets -most of them no more than lanes-resound with the honking of 700,000 cars, trucks and motorcycles, v. 59,000 before the war; traffic jams are hideous, and the death rate from traffic accidents the highest...
...this does not pacify the Japanese, who have focussed instead on the attempts of the U.S. to reduce its imports of Japanese textiles. In Washington last week, a delegation of Japanese businessmen testified that if the U.S. adopts President Kennedy's proposal to put an 8½? per pound surcharge on imported cotton textiles, Japan will reduce its heavy purchases of U.S. raw cotton...
With a first in the 35-pound weight and in the shot put (Art Doten and Rick deLone), the Crimson started as expected; but its depth in these usually strong weight events was lacking. Then, in the mile, a record-breaking performance by Cadet Rob Lingle upset the Crimson's Mark Mullin...