Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seek and get a college degree. He grew up in Connecticut's Housatonic valley, where his Lithuanian-born father was a wholesaler of paper, twine and groceries in the small towns of Ansonia and Shelton. It was not a wealthy family, and Sam worked at odd jobs to save money for college-only to discover that his father, in hopes of doubling the investment, had lost it all on a stock-market fling...
...which TV eats up material, "the series will always be the backbone of the TV industry." It hardly matters that, short of featuring a priest on a pogo stick, there are not many plots left beyond The Flying Nun. Producers of westerns have learned that a good way to save on dialogue is to let each of the "ride-bys"-the good guys chasing the bad guys-run on for an extra 20 seconds or so. Says one TV writer: "The civil rights movement has saved us temporarily. What we do now is drag out one of the old plots...
...President proposed to save another $500 million by reducing the number of American civilians working for the Government overseas and by persuading the nation's NATO allies to buy more U.S. weapons or Government bonds to offset the cost of the 350,000-man U.S. garrison in Europe. The final $500 million would come from stepped-up exports, which already give the U.S. a strong (but lately shrinking) trade surplus of $4.3 billion a year...
...Cambridge firemen tried to save some of Swamy's handwritten notes by rushing into the burning building and throwing them out the window. But they are still lost in the snow, and Swamy said the ink has probably been washed away...
Princeton may be a different story, but as one observer said early this week, "We always save our biggest surprise for Princeton." A win would be great for Harvard, but at this stage of the season, it's probably not in the tea leaves...