Word: pound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power to set "target prices'' (resembling U.S. support prices) for commodities and buy them for storage when high production forces down the market price. Ultimately, by gradual adjustment of target prices between nations, a loaf of white bread should cost no more in Bonn (current price per pound: 14?) than in Paris (6?), though Bonn won agreement that the move toward a common grain price will not begin until the 1964 harvest...
...Muriel Spark (187 pp.; Llppincott; $3.95). Knowledgeable readers of Muriel Spark's novels admire such crystalline structures of malice as Memento Mori and The Ballad oj Peckham Rye partly for the economy with which they are built. Avoiding bravura writing as she would a vulgar display of pound notes, this Scotswoman sits composedly among her characters, goading them by silence and an infrequent equivocal smile to disclose their sins. Rarely does the exposure require more than 200 pages, and at the end of a Muriel Spark novel, most readers find themselves wondering why other writers must babble...
will resume its purchases of Dominican sugar at the premium price of 5½? per pound, v. 2½? on the world market, and will assign the Dominican Republic a part of Cuba's former sugar quota. Sugar alone should add $55 million to the Dominican economy this year. Equally important, the misery-ridden land is now eligible to share in the Alliance for Progress. The day the OAS lifted its sanctions, the White House announced that an Alliance "task force" headed by Teodoro Moscoso, Latin American director of A.I.D., will speed to Santo Domingo (once Ciudad Trujillo...
...pound class Dave Grose-close lost 2-6, while in the unlimited classification, Bob Fastov lost...
...only Harvard victory was gained by Bob Kolodney in the 157-pound class, while Crimson captain George Doub wrestled Jim Janish, the Rutgers captain, to a 1-1 draw at 130 pounds...