Word: walls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese-supplied blue suits and caps were playing soccer, badminton and tug-of-war. The food seemed plentiful and nutritious. There was no barbed wire or watchtower, and only one visible armed sentry, at the main gate. The only indication of confinement was a 6-ft.-high brick wall surrounding the camp, which was formerly a training school for Chinese Communist officials...
...measure of just how helpless the U.S. has come to think of itself in dealings with OPEC was that investors seemed relieved that the official increase was "only" 9%. When that news reached Wall Street, stocks surged in their best one-day rally in five months. In Washington, the State Department called the rise "untimely and unjustified," and let it go at that. About the only Washington official to speak out strongly was Senator Henry Jackson. Besides showing OPEC's "greed," he said, the price boost reflected "a punitive doctrine" by Arab oil states eager to condemn...
Hailed in the early 1970s on Wall Street as a wunderstock and in the business press as "a savvy marketer to the Third World," ISC is today in deep trouble. In the past two years, it has piled up losses totaling more than $50 million. In February, the American Stock Exchange suspended trading in ISC, after auditors found serious irregularities in the firm's financial records. The company's longtime chairman, J. Thomas Kenneally, 52, was ousted two weeks ago, and the few employees remaining in ISC's lavish skyscraper headquarters have been busy tagging the antique...
Dick Arnos, however, subbing at six due to injuries to Scott Walker and Jim Curley, won an equally important straight-setter. And five-man Greg Kirsch avenged his loss to Jon Wall of a year ago by search-and-destroying the Middie, 6-2, 6-1. The victory gave the red-hot Kirsch a weekend total of 29 games won, 10 lost...
...SINGLES--G. Kirsch (H) def. J. Wall...