Word: winning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like a grand opera of which the overture is over, and we're in the first act of a world depression." A usually unemotional Swiss banker warned that "in participating in gold speculation, capitalists are doing their best to destroy the capitalist system. If they win the battle in London, the probability is that the whole present international monetary system will come crashing down." French Economist Jacques Rueff, who has long predicted a crisis and argued for a rise in the price of gold, saw his worst jeremiads vindicated. "Whether one wants a gold price increase or not," said...
...week's end, Dubček announced that the party Central Committee would gather next week to discuss more "personnel changes." As for Novotny, he continued to tour factories, where he no doubt tried to win worker support by predicting unemployment, inflation and other hardships from Dubcek's reforms. It seemed clear, however, that the party was about to nudge Novotný off his last perch in the government. Already three men were mentioned to succeed him as President: Minister of Forestry Josef Smrkovsky, 61, General Ludvik Svoboda, 61, and Deputy Prime Minister Oldřich Černik...
Alienation of affection suits are relatively rare. What few there are are almost invariably brought by one marriage partner against the other's lover, and they are hard to win. Thus, the chances of Melvin Bradesku, a Cleveland electrician, seemed slim when he decided to file such a suit last year. Or even slimmer, considering the defendant. His wife, he said, had been stolen away from him by a church. The whole thing continued to appear exceptionally ludicrous, in fact, right up until last week when an Akron jury ordered various representatives of the church...
...addition to Mao-think and Mao-speak, the Orient is now being flooded with Mao-carve. On display in Hong Kong are 1,000 statuettes, vases, panels and scrolls dedicated to the greater glory of the Chinese People's Republic. The titles are unlikely to win their authors any new accounts on Madison Avenue (typical stone-hewn example: Take Firm Hold of the Revolution, Promote Production). But if visitors can manage to avoid reading the copy, they will certainly be diverted by the eye-rolling ingenuity...
...hard to think of Jack Nicklaus as an old man, especially at 28, when he is still the favorite to win practically every tournament he plays. But Jack is suddenly experiencing the problem that every aging prodigy faces: youngsters are tapping him on the shoulder and saying, "Move over, Dad." This spring, as never before, professional golf has been invaded by an army of ambitious newcomers who can belt a ball every bit as far as their elders (or farther), dig divots on the greens with the bite of their approach shots, and putt as if the cups were canyons...