Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...player can often bounce a shot off an angled wall to give a hit that is almost impossible to return, Pell explained yesterday. In addition, a skillful server may be able to aim the cloth bail into one of several openings to ring a bell and give an extra point...
...Bucharest's streets. He keeps his private life so quiet that no one is sure where he lives. Dej had a chain of villas-one in Sinaia, one in Predeal, another in Mamaia, and one replete with private movie theater, a television screen that covered a wall, electronic door openers and infra-red radiators. Hard-working and humorless, clever but cautious, Ceausescu is infra-Red all by himself...
...wall! To be executed! That is what I want. It is deserved!" cried Cubela. At that point, the script suddenly changed. Dramatically, the prosecutor read a letter from Fidel himself, asking for mercy-and the judges let Cubela off with only 25 years. The reason? From exiles trickling through to Miami came word that students at Cubela's old stomping ground, the University of Havana, had staged an angry demonstration, with a black-draped coffin, signs reading, "If Cubela dies, so do you, Fidel!" and an ancient horse-in jeering reference to Castro's nickname, el Caballo...
...logical, and ever since inflation began to loom large, it has retreated in fright. The Dow-Jones industrial average has fallen almost 70 points since early February, and last week, in a frenzy of deep plunges and brief rallies, it lost another four points to close at 927.95. Wall Street is worried that the fight on inflation and the war in Viet Nam may oblige the Government to take harsh steps that will pinch prosperity. That specifically includes the likelihood of higher taxes, but many investors would rather see Lyndon Johnson raise taxes than rely on Federal Reserve Chairman William...
...almost immediate result, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith boosted its rates for margin loans from 6½% to 6¾% for small investors and from 5¾% to 6% for big ones. Most important, from Wall Street's viewpoint, tight money has made bonds more attractive than at any time since 1921. Many a $1,000-par medium-grade corporate bond is selling close to $900 and yielding about 6% ; some tax-free municipal bonds pay interest of 4%, which is as good as an 8% stock dividend return to an investor in a high-tax bracket. The current...