Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meet's big surprise was 600 runner J. C. Dudley who ran a 1:12.1 for Exeter to take first in that event, setting a new Exeter record. His time shaved 1.1 seconds of the previous record which had been set by Harvard's Keith Colburn when he ran for Exeter...
Readers did not hesitate to take TIME to task. Some complained about color pictures of Viet Nam casualties; many were appalled at what they saw as a growing permissiveness in just about every section. One reader was even disturbed by a picture of mating linden-bugs that ran in Science. "And after the housefly, what?" she asked. "The housewife...
Entrance Costs. Borch is openly dissatisfied. He says: "We have not been doing as well as we would like in increasing our earnings to match our recent sales growth." At G.E., the percentage of profits to sales ran 4.7% in 1966 and 1967, well down from 1959's recent record of 6.2%. Last year earnings would have been off even more except for a final-quarter spurt in overall sales, including those of TV sets, appliances and other consumer products, which account for some 25% of G.E.'s business...
Window Dressing. For the moment, however, the dollar seems secure against the devaluation that a gold-price increase would involve. The U.S. last year ran a tiny balance-of-payments surplus, its first in eleven years. It was a victory with a high price. "No one should be deluded," says Treasury Secretary Kennedy. "Underneath the overall result, our trade balance has sagged to the vanishing point under the pressure of inflation, and additional controls on American investment were imposed to achieve the balance. We do not plan to rely indefinitely on tight controls or statistical window dressing to disguise...
...when a California Big Freeze hits the Southern citrus region, it's serious business. After a pocket of air from the North Pole descended on Southern California last month and gripped the orange groves in its 25-degree chill, nearly one half of the crop was lost. Local newspapers ran editorials to moan about the loss of what appeared to be a bumper orange crop, and grumbling orange growers could find consolation only by scanning the papers for reports of freezes in hated Florida...