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...House freely rotated 17 players in the game, including sophomore Lucy Wood. A number of Crimson players, particularly scoring ace Jeff Garrity and 200-pound defensemen Chris Dowd and Walt Herbert, were heavier and stronger than their foes, and Kirkland House hoped to be able to wear the Eli's down...
...first time ever, the British pound has plunged below $2. It dropped to $1.915 before rising slightly to $1.928 at week's end. The Italian lira has lost 18% of its value since January; it now stands at 806 to the dollar, v. 633 only one year ago. Beset by economic troubles, Spain devalued the peseta by 10% last month. There are strong indications that the French franc may also be forced into devaluation...
...precipitous decline of the pound highlighted the tensions within the ruling Labor Party. The Conservative opposition combined with rebellious left-wingers to defeat a government White Paper outlining sharp cutbacks in social services-a key part of Prime Minister Harold Wilson's program to slow the inflation that is eroding the pound. As a test of strength, Wilson called for-and won-a vote of confidence. He intends to press ahead with his austerity policy, which has the backing of the trade union leaders. The government seemed, in fact, to welcome the cheapening of the pound as an automatic...
Below the Snake. Measured against the pound or lira, the French franc looks strong. Measured against the deutsche mark, it seems weak-mostly because prices are rising more than 31½ times as fast in France (an annual rate of 9.6%) as in Germany. France is a member of the "snake," a group of eight European countries that have pledged to keep currency-exchange rates within a 4.5% range of fluctuation; the franc is trading right at the bottom of that range. Some French industrialists would welcome a devaluation as a means of making French products cheaper abroad, and some...
Well, the loving couple were together; we just had to get back into the story line and pound in the song's general lack of vision; and it was my turn to tinkle the keys...