Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Only Great Britain, whose own economy is precariously balanced, has shown real willingness to share the burden. This year the British government expects to spend $386 million abroad, v. $204 million last year. This money, along with private investments, goes mainly to underdeveloped Commonwealth countries. Britain also moved last week to help stem the flight of gold from the U.S. when the Bank of England lowered its discount rate from...
...harried house hunters in 21 states across the southern tier of the U.S., the real estate ads seemed too good to be true: "Jim Walter Homes. Priced from $1,395. Nothing Down, 100% Financing!" But true they were. The houses were shell homes-frame dwellings completely finished on the outside, but with plumbing, heating, wiring and interior decorating left as unfinished business for the enterprising buyer. So enticing have they proved that, despite a general housing slump this year, the Jim Walter Corp., the biggest U.S. builder specializing in finish-your-own houses, last week reported earnings...
...wife, family, mistress and imploring minister show some of the surest writing in years. Up to a point Rabbit, Run seems to be saying that this is what much of life in the U.S. is like; certainly Updike's scene and people seem too threateningly typical. Yet the real weakness of the book is Rabbit's own. Not many men, no matter how desperate, are as devoid of inner resources. For all its excellences, it would have been a bigger book if Rabbit had been a bigger...
...little later, with Bartolet at quarterback, the Crimson mounted its first real moving from the Harvard 20 to Princeton six, before Armstrong on a third down play and Scott for the home team. Armstrong's runs of thirteen, nine and twelve , and a 27-yard pass play from Bartolet, and to Messenbaugh, who lateraled to Boyda, covered most of the yardage...
...several thousand who waited patiently outside in the rain for the Columbus Circle rally got the real treat of the evening. Here Kennedy and Johnson, who had been restrained inside by the time limit and prepared texts, let themselves...