Word: tip-off
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...eliminated four guerrilla commanders, including the third-ranking man in the Huk hierarchy, Efren Lopez, who went by the nom de guerre of Commander Freddie. The action apparently resulted in part from factional division and rivalry among the insurgents. Government forces had trapped Freddie and his men on a tip-off -and that tip-off had evidently come from Commander Sumulong, who ranks directly below Huk Supremo Pedro Taruc. Sumulong had apparently felt challenged by Freddie. Last week, far from shattered, and united again at least in revenge, the Huks struck back...
...second half was frustrating for Harvard suporters. Penn jumped its lead to 10 points within two minutes of the tip-off, but Noble set up first Mike Janczewski and then Joe Stanislaw--both sophomores--and the Crimson pulled to within four with 12:57 left...
...will be packed to its very rafters for tonight's all-important Ivy League basketball game between Harvard and Dartmouth. Coach Bob Harrison looks for a large turnout of frustrated Reading perioders for the 8 p.m. tip...
International money men seem convinced that the next tinkering with the world's wobbly monetary system will involve a general realignment of most major currency values. One tip-off came last week from Karl Schiller, West Germany's increasingly influential Economic Minister. In a TV interview, Schiller substantially hedged Kurt Kiesinger's month-old promise that "the mark will never be revalued while I am Chancellor." That promise, said Socialist Schiller, binds the German government only until next September's national elections. More important, he added, it applies only to an isolated German move to raise...
...giveaway to the lazy, something-for-nothing. Agnew's father, a Baltimore restaurateur (the Piccadilly and the Brighton) went broke during the Depression and had to sell vegetables from the back of a truck. While many were surprised at Agnew's unyielding stance on civil disorders in April, some tip-off might have come a few weeks earlier when more than 200 students from Bowie State College, a dilapidated, predominantly Negro institution near Washington, came to Annapolis to petition for better facilities. The Governor not only refused to see them but had them arrested, ordering the school closed as well...