Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smooth play by halfbacks Tony Davies, Billy Ward, and Emmanuel Boye gave the line an ample supply of shooting opportunities, and many solid kicks by the Crimson forward wall either bounced away off the posts or missed by inches...
Leading Lehigh's first-string line, dubbed the "Indians," is center Charlie Craze, known as "Chief Crazy Horse." No pushover, this line will outweigh Harvard's starting wall by 13 pounds per man with an average of 215 pounds. The two stalwarts are highly publicized tackles Reed Bohovich and captain Mike Semcheski...
...couple of weeks ago, Administration insiders leaked the news that Fowler Hamilton, an international lawyer and an old Government hand, would soon be appointed director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, succeeding Allen Dulles. Later, the word came that Wall Street Banker George Woods would soon be named head of the new Agency for International Development. But under the New Frontier, such predictions are often unsafe until the actual swearing-in ceremonies. When President Kennedy last week announced the appointment of Fowler Hamilton...
Discount on Wall Street. Businessmen were not quite so happy at the consumer's tightfistedness. Builders saw little to cheer about in the fact that housing starts declined 2% in August. And though manufacturers' sales of consumer durables rose 1%, no fat backlog of unfilled orders was developing. One reason seemed to be that producers were delivering promptly because they still had plenty of unused plant. Excess capacity and intense competition served also as an inflationary brake, as was demonstrated last week when Aluminum Co. of America felt obliged to cut its basic ingot prices from...
...last week alone the index lost nearly 15 points, closing at 701.57. While the week's decline stemmed largely from the U.N. crisis and the instinctive tendency of amateurs (but not professionals) to sell in time of danger, there were deeper reasons behind the longer-range falloff. Most Wall Street analysts agreed that investors had already discounted the present degree of economic recovery, were now waiting for another broad-based and dramatic economic surge before buying heavily again...