Word: quits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North. Implicit in his position, however, was an invitation to negotiations. Typically, the week yielded a spate of hints about breakthroughs on the diplomatic front; the U.S., for example, was talking to the Swiss about yet another feeler from Hanoi that talks would begin if the Americans would only quit bombing the North...
Blunt & Brutal. Jenkins, who took over the chancellorship last November after James Callaghan quit in humiliation because of the devaluation, reject ed the half measures with which Prime Minister Harold Wilson's government in the past has tried to cope with Brit ain's worsening economy. Instead, he struck squarely at the most bothersome aspect of Britain's financial weakness: a balance of payments deficit that reached $1.3 billion last year. He hopes to turn that deficit into a $1.2 billion surplus this year by the blunt and bru tal method of taking money from British pockets...
Steiger is an actor who seems able to make The Method work. Born in Westhampton, Long Island, he quit high school at 16 to join the Navy, When his hitch was up, he went to work for the Veterans Administration; a co-worker girl friend in Washington, D.C., got him interested in a local little theater group. In due course, Steiger headed for Manhattan and the Actors Studio. He made his first hit as the original Marty on television, then scored in films as Marlon Brando's brother in On the Waterfront, for which he received his first Oscar...
...clear now," Hennessee said. "We've paid off all our debts, but unless we get some money in a hurry to run the club with, we're going to have to quit...
...breaking Dell's serve three times. The lanky Yale sophomore evened the match with a 6-2 victory in the second set. Dell jumped out to a 3-1 lead in the final set and looked as though he would go all the way. But Junta, refusing to quit, bore down and won five straight games, the set, and the match...