Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Green Bay Packers defeat the Dallas Cowboys 21-17 for an unprecedented third straight National Football League title...
Married. Bobbie Gentry, 27, the lissome singer who two years ago had millions wondering what Billie Joe threw off the Tallahatchie Bridge; and William Harrah, 58, owner of Nevada's biggest gambling casino, Harrah's Club at Reno and Lake Tahoe; he for the third time; in a Presbyterian ceremony in Reno...
Viet Nam Paychecks. The slum-centered third-Holy Cross High-was in no position to boost its $220 tuition, but the twelve brothers who run it refused to quit. In a city where 44% of the Chicano population are functionally illiterate, they argued, only the Catholic schools offer slum children a quality education. In fact, 85% of Holy Cross's 560 male students are Mexican-Americans and 80% of them go on to college, compared with 11% from the district's public high schools...
...Japan forges ahead of West Germany to become world's third greatest industrial power...
Downgrading in Washington. Working under the United Nations for twelve years, the four countries have raised $175 million, nearly one-third among themselves and the rest in loans and grants from 26 other countries, to finance hydroelectric projects, bridges and engineering studies. The U.S. has spent about $36 million. Thailand has completed two dams, Laos is working on the big Nam Ngum Dam, and Cambodia has begun a power and irrigation project near Pnompenh. Now the most ambitious project of all is ready for financing: the $1 billion Pa Mong Dam between Thailand and Laos. The dam, the first...