Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everybody will be down to 5½%," predicted Vice President-Comptroller John W. D. Wright of International Harvester. "It's only a question of time." Said President Mark C. Wheeler of Boston's New England Merchants National Bank: "My own belief is that Chase is going to make 5½% stick. The demand for funds has been a little less and the supply of money a little larger than expected...
...ORBIT by Wright Morris. 153 pages. New American Library...
Gerald Piel, publisher of Scientific American, will determine the winners. Charles W. Dunn, Master of Quincy House, will also serve on the panel of judges. commenting on Master Dunn's credentials, Reiser observed last night that "the Wright brothers are said to be of Celtic origin." Master Dunn is professor of Celtic Languages...
...school (only 46% Catholic) is a few blocks from city and federal courts, and a ten-minute walk from the Supreme Court. The area is a virtually ideal crime laboratory, and the school has made the most of its opportunities. Georgetown now boasts what U.S. Judge J. Skelly Wright calls "probably the most systematic and thorough training in trial advocacy offered anywhere in the country...
...answer has had to be based on precedent. Ever since Wright v. Mt. Mansfield Lift, Inc. in Vermont 16 years ago, it has been held that the skier assumes certain obvious risks when he starts down a slope. If he is unfortunate enough to run smack into a stump or a buried fence, it is usually considered not to be the fault of the stump or the stump's owners. Conversely, when a skier is heading uphill on a lift, the lift owner is usually liable for any injury suffered because of mechanical collapse or breakdown unless the injured...