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With fifteen minutes remaining in the game, State held a 13 point lead, due mainly to the efforts of junior center Dave Sorensen and a series of damaging Harvard errors. Then Dover put on a personal scoring spree which cut the margin to four, 11 minutes from...
...second period action went back and forth in the first few minutes while both goalies were making great saves. A Harvard penalty at 4:26 started the B.U. offense on a spree which ended in a goal at 7:35 after a barrage of shots on Durno...
...slashing like scythes, he was collecting an average of 18 rebounds a game. Trading on his fadeaway jump shot, and a rim-rattling dunker, he recently turned in the top N.B.A. individual performance so far this season: 54 points against the Detroit Pistons. Last week, with a 147-point spree in four games, Elvin became the league's highest scorer...
With surprising unanimity, economists and bankers in and out of Britain agree that Wilson waited too long to clamp down on domestic consumption. Forewarned that curbs were coming and fearful of higher prices, Britons went on a spending spree. Consumers not only bought up imports but helped to keep British industry from taking much advantage of its opportunities to sell abroad. "We definitely miscalculated by delaying as long as we did," admits Wilfred Brown, the Board of Trade's minister of state for exports. Even after Wilson belatedly imposed austerity measures-heavy new taxes, tight wage controls...
...more on controlling the money supply to regulate the pace of business. During the second quarter of this year, the amount of money in circulation rose at the inflationary rate of 10% a year. Many economists now contend that this was an underlying cause of the worrisome consumer-spending spree. Argues London's influential weekly, the Economist: "The British government's views on money supply are completely out of date...