Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Portuguese port of Beira, terminus of an oil pipeline to Rhodesia. There, separated from the end of the pipeline by only 30 ft., it waited. Several hundred miles to the south its sister ship Manuela set a course out of the South African port of Durban-destination unknown...
Dillaway had filled out his withdrawal slip and presented it to the woman teller at the savings window. She began to tremble--and for good reason. On the back of the slip an unknown prankster had written, "I have a gun. Give me all your paper money...
...even so, a team that has played four games is always something of an unknown quantity, even to its own coach. B.C.'s statistics are impressive enough-- second baseman Fran Riley, the team's leading hitter, is batting a whopping .532. Ed Foley, a football refugee who has von his only decision this season, will be on the mound for the Eagles...
Last year the Crimson walloped Williams, 5-2, and B.C., 6-1. But Weiland is not over-confident. "They'll be the toughest team we've faced since Navy," he said. Torhorst is an unknown quantity, but he'll have to come through if Harvard...
When Soapy Williams left Michigan to become Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Jerry Cavanagh was a completely unknown 32-year-old Detroit lawyer. His election as Mayor in 1961 was an even greater surprise than William's victory in 1948, and it left Cavanagh owing little to Williams and the Fifties Liberals, some of whom opposed him. As a nonpartisan Mayor with few debts, Cavanagh was free to make a different kind of record and form a different political outlook. His major achievements--improvement of police-Negro relations, a city income tax, and an imaginative anti-poverty program...