Word: rhodes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spread across the country by chain and variety stores, the crosses are now being made of copper, wood, enamel and silver plate, and are being sold by such quality stores as Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman and B. Altman. Largest manufacturer is Rhode Island's Ronnie Jewelry, Inc., which is now turning out some 24,000 crosses a day, calls them "the hottest single novelty item in years...
...Eagles have put away their first four opponents, including a 7-5 victory last weekend over Dartmouth. They shut out Springfield 4-0 (a team that Harvard edged 4-3), and also downed Rhode Island and M.I.T...
...Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Florida and California have all recently either dispatched groups to New Hampshire to study the operation or sent letters of inquiry...
Critics of Prouty's proposal denounced it as fiscal profligacy. Florida Democrat George Smathers warned that it would "feed the fires of inflation." Asked Rhode Island Democrat John Pastore: "How can we have our cake and eat it too?" Long, who acted as floor manager for the Administration tax bill, objected that the amendment could benefit millionaires as well as paupers. Nonetheless, in an election year, many Senators saw the justice of Prouty's proposal. Watched by lobbyists from the National Council of Senior Citizens in the gallery, they passed the amendment, 45 to 40, with the support...
...League. This season, its record is already 7-2 with wins over Yale, Penn, and Columbia included in the total. But the Ivy League teams Brown has beaten are the ones who suffered most from graduation last year, and its outside opponents have been the likes of Rhode Island, Wesleyan, and Coast Guard, hardly the scourges of Eastern wrestling...