Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHEN the curtain first went up on the drama of Czechoslovakia, TIME'S cover story (April 5) on Alexander Dubček observed that, more than any other man, he had "planned, pleaded for and nurtured the sweeping changes that promise to alter the temper and quality of Czechoslovak life, and perhaps the nature of Communism in the rest of Eastern Europe as well." As that drama began to climax with a confrontation between Dubček and a phalanx of irritated Russian leaders, TIME'S correspondents concerned themselves last week not only with the central characters...
Married. Jayne Harries, 16, Britain's runaway of the year and heiress to a London banking fortune; and Gavin Hodge, 23, a mod hairdresser she met at a party last April; on Gibraltar. No stranger to the headlines, Jayne had newsmen and her frantic parents chasing her two weeks ago when she and Gavin eloped to Europe. But the folks finally gave in when they found that the kids were really that way about each other...
During the height of its monetary crisis last March, the U.S. lost some $1.2 billion worth of gold, the biggest outflow ever in one month. Since then, the situation has eased. In April, the nation's gold loss dropped to $156 million, in May to $79 million. Last week came the most encouraging word yet. During June, the Treasury Department announced, the U.S. enjoyed a net inflow of $213 million worth of gold, the biggest single increase in the nation's bullion reserves in more than four years and the first monthly gain of any kind since last...
...hours in a plane stacked up over Kennedy Airport, only to emerge into the mid-90° steam bath that was Manhattan last week. As cool and beautiful as a nightblooming cereus, French Film Star Catherine Deneuve, 24, was over from Paris for three weeks of filming on The April Fools, a romantic comedy about two sufferers of mal de mariage. And pity the folks dying to show her the town. What with costumers, hairdressers, script girls and the rest, it was almost a week before Socialites Heidi Vanderbilt and Cathy Macauley could crash through with a bash...
...million wage earners subject to withholding, last week's paychecks reflected an extra 10% tax on the tax they had already been paying. Because the surtax is retroactive to April 1 for individuals, some will discover at income tax filing that they have to pay more than has been deducted. Those who normally receive a refund will find the Government check is smaller. Since it will cover only nine months, the surtax for the full calendar year 1968 will be 7.5%. Corporations get the full treatment. For them, the retroactivity extends back...