Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dennis Ralston, Butch Buchholz and Marty Riessen all fell on the tournament's first day. Ron Holmberg, after beating South African Cliff Drysdale, blew his match with Stolle. And Pancho Gonzalez, the Old Wolf, fell apart, leading Australian Ken Rosewall 2-0 in the third set, then losing...
...London Times: "We, no less than the Victorians, have our current cant. Ours is to protest that books and plays with only the most tenuous claims to be taken seriously must be fought for because they contain once-taboo words and situations. We make martyrs out of third-rate writers in no danger of going to the stake." A compelling answer to this argument is that third-rate or even tenth-rate writers must be protected if first-rate writers are to be free. Banning books and prosecuting theater owners can actually be self-defeating, since they lend false glamour...
...which took effect last week, will bring the pay of two million U.S. Government civilian employees up to what their counterparts in private industry were collecting a year ago. A deputy bureau commissioner in a large department, for instance, goes up from $30,239 to $33,495, his third in crease in two years. Some Government employees have now had six raises in the past three years...
...Neuwirth Fund, which last year soared 90% in per-share value to rank No. 1 in the U.S., fell 16% in the first half and dropped to 305th place. The Mates Investment Fund, which gained 73% last year, has fallen to No. 367. Gibraltar Growth, which was in third place in 1968, dropped 13% and is now 254th...
Forced Subsidy. The company's efforts to earn the profits to pay for that modernization, however, have yet to succeed. Although BSC had 1968 sales of $2.6 billion, which ranked it as the world's third biggest steelmaker, behind U.S. Steel and Bethlehem, the company lost $29 million, and there is no immediate prospect of getting out of the red. Melchett has been frustrated in efforts to cut costs, partly by the government's policy of protecting the nationalized coal mines. BSC is not allowed to import low-cost foreign coal, and purchases of foreign...