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Harsh Proposition. De Gaulle, and his conservative Finance Minister Antoine Pinay (a small-town tanner before entering politics) added two other anti-inflationary controls. To keep wages in line, they abolished the old system of pegging salaries to the cost-of-living index-though to compensate France's poor for increased food costs they decreed a 5.5% raise in the minimum wage. And by the removal of import quotas on a wide list of products. France's manufacturers would be exposed to so much foreign competition that it would be difficult for them to raise prices. Had these...
...evenly matched were the two teams that the goalies had nearly the same total of saves: Harry Pratt 24 and B.U.'s Ron Tanner 22. One of the few apparent differences in play was the more aggressive forechecking of the Terrier forwards, which pressed the defense into sloppy clearing...
...ragged minutes in the second period, play raged with nothing but an occasional offside whistle, before each side exploded with a sterling offensive play. With Dan Dolan of B.U. resting in the penalty box after tripping Mc- Laughlin, Fischer broke around the defense on the left and shot on Tanner. The puck bounced off the backboard, but the center grabbed his own rebound and stuffed it in the cage...
After several near-miss slap shots, McLaughlin drilled the puck at Tanner from 20 feet, and Fischer deflected the shot perfectly for a hat trick and tie score...
...first book, the madwoman of Beekman Place was getting on toward 60 and past her best years (although she would not have admitted it). Clearly Author Dennis (real name: Edward Everett Tanner III) had to backtrack and find a more youthful Mame. Deftly he discovered a hitherto overlooked interlude. It seems that between the time Mame's nephew Patrick was kicked out of St. Boniface Academy in Apathy, Mass. and the time he entered college and the brawny embrace of Bubbles, the waitress, there was a broadening period of travel...