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...Five has also had its share of national battles. LaSalle and Tom Gola led the Big Five to a national championship in 1954, and Villanova broke the Atlantic Coast Conference's dominance on the Eastern regional, and wound up finishing second to UCLA...
...very late one Friday in the frightful winter of the year 19-. Holmes was filling his pipe with the noxious tobacco he kept in a slipper upon the mantel. I sat by the gasogene, trying to ignore the chill worrying my old Jezail bullet wound. It was not a very keen period for the world's first consulting detective; like all Englishmen, he only worked a three-day week. We could get little fuel, and warmed ourselves by burning pictures of coal from newsmagazine accounts of the miners' strike. Suddenly there came peremptory knocking at the door...
...Heath must find a resolution soon. Politicians, economists and businessmen warned last week that time is running out for Britain's beleaguered economy. As the country wound up its third three-day work week, the costs in lost production soared to nearly $1 billion. Critics were quick to point out that the annual wage settlement sought by the miners totaled only $200 million. On the international money markets, the pound fell to $2.16, its lowest value ever against the American dollar. Nearly a million Britons had lined up for the dole. Said Lord Stokes, chairman of British Leyland...
...price for the stock would depend on the company's net worth, he claimed that the price should be far less than he earlier had trumpeted. Instead of collecting the $22 per share that they had expected, Air West stockholders-some of whom have filed suit against Hughes-wound up selling their shares for about $11 each...
...flying doctors are paid only $15,000 to $20,000 a year. But they often earn other rewards. A Masai warrior, who suffered a spear wound in the buttock, was so delighted with Wood's ministrations that he made him a blood brother of the tribe...