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...pledge inscribed on some 95% of all U.S. dollar bills: This certifies that there is on deposit in the Treasury of the United States of America one dollar in silver payable to the bearer on demand? From now on, said Dillon, silver certificates will be redeemed at the U.S. Assay Offices in New York City or San Francisco with envelopes containing exactly 0.77 of a "fine troy" ounce of silver crystals, worth a dollar at the official monetary rate for silver: $1.29 per oz. Collectors will be hard put to trade up their value -they will bear no identifying marks...
...that men in power may not be as educated sophisticated, or steeped in political theory. But they may have facts, information, and background that we don't have. They have advisors whose life work it has been to know other countries and their rulers, and to assay and understand their intentions beter then...
...where withal to finance his promised reforms. The results were mixed. The Alliance for Progress disbursed $5.000.000 of $47 million in credits and grants that had already been committed to the Dominican Republic. Private industry in the U.S. and other countries agreed to send in missions to assay investment opportunities. And he does have a stable currency to build on. Last year, under diligent prodding from the provisional government, the country's peso gained 20% in value. Still, for all his travels and talking, Bosch is far from having all the money he needs to carry out his campaign...
...Bender recently warned that strictly academic standards, neglecting "passion, fire, warmth, goodness, feeling, color, humanity, eccentric individuality," may well produce "bloodless" Harvard students. Other admissions men are trying hard to discount test scores, which because they are so universally high are less useful for making distinctions. Now they assay "nonintellectual" (or nonrational) qualities, earnestly searching for "selflessness" or "sterling character" or signs that "he's more...
...Gordon Milde, to take but one melancholy example, has written a tiring, adolescent, bogus-religious, pre-New Yorkerish (one could enumerate further) bit of fiction; Mr. Roger Hagen, to take but one other, has written a tortuous, jargon-ridden assay on "new radical humanism"--his confusion is endemic...