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Exploiting a Letdown. Ankrah has cut down government expenses by 20%, laid off at least 83,000 earners from what was fondly called "no-work pay" in the old days, and shipped tons of coins bearing Nkrumah's likeness to be melted down in the British Mint. By devaluing Ghana's currency 30%, Ankrah has shrunk imports and wiped out a foreign trade deficit that totaled $840 million when he took over. He has given such U.S. companies as Firestone Tire & Rubber and Union Carbide contracts to revitalize Nkrumah's mismanaged state corporations...
...Most Dangerous Game ended with a moment of silence for the world that had been, before the players brought a nuclear holocaust upon themselves. As the TV cameras blinked off I felt a curious letdown--it was all over. In four weeks we had gotten no further than a large inconclusive war; and then in one final week we had brought the world...
...scoreboard with two quick goals late in the period. The Eagles capitalized on a Harvard letdown following deMichele's apparently game-clinching goal, and scored at 11:28. They scored again two minutes later following a scramble in front of the crease...
Harvard is in something of an ambiguous position. Looking back to a 4-3 loss to B.C. Saturday night and anticipating big games with Brown and Cornell, the Crimson risks the same sort of letdown against Princeton that cost it last winter's upset...
...Reynolds or a Reynolds Wrap." Then came a preview of the provocative choices ahead. First was a series of simple knit dresses simple except for the clear vinyl bands that saucily bared the navel and the underslope of the bosom. Nor were the bathing suits that followed any letdown. Clear vinyl was at work again to make them the nudest since the topless...