Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Means Committee. After much wrangling, the White House promised to trim $2.6 billion from what would have been spent in the current fiscal year, and Congress excised another $1.8 billion. It is possible that some tax increase will be voted next year. - Civil rights proposals ran aground for the second straight year. The Administration's omnibus measure proposed open housing, a ban on jury discrimination and protection for civil rights workers...
...stage for the Murphy-Adams-Shrout three ring circus. Murphy, with his championship style readily apparent, ran away with the one-meter diving. Shrout had no trouble winning the 200 free, and Adams edged out Navy's Bruce Rachor in the 50-yeard free to give Harvard a commanding lead...
...legacy of this maltreatment, Fisher says, made independence in association with the other two islands meaningless for Anguilla: "They replaced a warden responsible to Britain with one responsible to St. Kitts, so there was still a warden on the island who ran it and was the only government on the island. There was no school board, no local autonomy, no council to do anything...
...second battle was entirely a Vietnamese victory. Two companies of a Ranger battalion were moving along a canal line 22 miles southwest of the Delta's largest city, Can Tho, when they ran into two Viet Cong battalions: the local force U Minh 10 and the 303rd main force unit. In a fierce fight that raged through most of one day, the South Vietnamese killed 265 of the V.C., and supporting helicopters and fighter-bombers accounted for another 100 dead. The total of 365 enemy dead was the largest ever inflicted in a Delta battle, with more probably...
...sleeper," says one scout, apparently figuring that White would go unnoticed by the other bird dogs because he played for the small Ogden, Utah, school. Not so. A Little All-America, White carried the ball an average of 28 times a game, ran for 276 yds. against Idaho. "Doesn't have great outside speed," says a scouting report, "but really tough inside. An excellent blocker on both runs and passes. Will be among the first four draft picks...