Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soared as high as 120 kip for $1 in the markets of Vientiane, Bangkok and Hong Kong. The disparity between official and free-exchange rates has become an open invitation to speculators. The system works this way: a Laotian importer wants to bring in 20 radios at a unit cost of $50 each. He gets an import license for $1,000 worth of radios from the Laotian government. He pays for it with $1,000 in Laotian kip, which he has already bought on the free market in Bangkok or Hong Kong for about $400. The profit, minus whatever...
...equipped with 24 Telefunken directional aerials (designed to overcome variations in signal strength caused by fluctuations in the ionosphere). A second, medium-distance transmitter, able to blanket the Mediterranean basin, will replace the short-range broadcaster, but will not interfere with Rome's stations, as the old unit...
Photographer Wever, who stands 5 ft. 4 in. and weighs 115 Ibs., was all but smothered in the arms of the law. Bailiff Charles Michel rushed him head on. while the judge himself grabbed him around the neck from behind. Before they sent his camera and strobe unit crashing to the floor, Miami Daily News Photographer Charles Trainor leaped out of a phone booth in time to get the shot (see cut] that best pictured the law taking things into its own hands...
Dartmouth's line opened holes for the backs, and the backs, running off quick openers, found them every time. Indeed, the Indians' forward unit, led by Captain Joe Palermo, was perhaps the decisive factor in the game, as only the Crimson's 220 pound tackles, Pete Briggs and Bob Shaunessy, could measure up to, and often surpass, Dartmouth's caliber of play...
...rest of the varsity should be near its peak for the game. Tackle Pete Briggs, injured against Columbia, has recovered and will be in his usual starting position at left tackle. The rest of the line will be the same unit which has blocked the Crimson to consecutive wins over Ohio and Columbia, and the backfield will have Albie Cullen at left halfback, replacing Boulris if he is unable to start, as its only newcomer to the starting ranks...