Word: prospecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only bright spots on attack are the improving play of converted midfielder Charley Ames, and the aggressive work of sophomore John Ince. Ince, the best prospect at close defenseman on the team, only needs a little more varsity experience to set the Crimson rolling...
...Nothing troubled the Fulbright faction more than the prospect that the Administration might order a major increase in U.S. troop strength in Viet Nam without any consultations with Congress. "Do I understand you to be saying," Fulbright asked, "that you have no intention to consult with this committee and Congress, that you are going to do as you please?" Rusk said that the Administration would con sult with "appropriate" members of Congress about any important decisions concerning...
...hardly assuaged the committee's fears of a buildup of as many as 200,000 additional men. By week's end, word leaked out that the Administration-perhaps as a partial reaction to the hearing-had ruled out a massive troop increase. One spokesman said that the prospect is more likely to be a moderate buildup in the coming months...
...planned, one of the nation's longest-running merger dramas will come to an end. Since last summer, the huge farm-and industrial-equipment maker has spurned the courtship of Dallas' LingTemco-Vought, been dropped by General Dynamics and forcefully wrenched from a third merger prospect, Signal Oil. That, reportedly, was the work of Kleiner, Bell & Co., a Beverly Hills brokerage firm, which holds some 15% of Allis-Chalmers stock. Kleiner, Bell President Burt Kleiner, who had apparently bought in when Allis-Chalmers was selling at around $40 a share, protested that Signal's $46-per-share...
THAT confidence has been shaken, virtually shattered, by the British devaluation and the prospect of an enlarged U.S. balance-of-payments deficit. Speculators took a look at the vast foreign holdings of dollars and were convinced that the announced dollars price of gold could not be maintained; they wanted to be holding gold if the U.S. devalued...