Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...human casualty of the gold crisis in Britain was Foreign Secretary George Brown, a man with a large reputation for unpredictability. When Prime Minister Harold Wilson called the mid night conference with the Queen at Buckingham Palace at which the government decided to declare a bank holiday, he unaccountably failed to summon Brown, even though the issue's foreign policy implications were obvious. In fact, Brown, who was listening to a debate in Commons at the time, first learned of the meeting when a fellow Labor M.P. asked him what was going on. Enraged by being left out, Brown...
...latest addition to the literature, and perhaps the best, is three one-minute Pontiac commercials. One shows Bonnie and Clyde in the hands of an effervescent dealer. The gang has just pulled a bank job and needs "something that moves." The rest of the commercial is a hilarious takeoff on the scene from the movie in which the bandits kidnap a young couple. In this case, the unsuspecting Pontiac salesman merrily delivers his pitch-again to a banjo score-while Clyde & Co. barrel down the road with him. At length, they boot him out. Says the salesman, unperturbed...
Chilling is no overstatement, for Judd's works, commercially fabricated of Plexiglas, anodized aluminum, stainless steel Or galvanized iron have all the cosy warmth and intimacy of an assembly line or a bank vault. Still, the gallerygoers strolling among them seem to derive considerable visual satisfaction from the myriad reflections and subtler shadows cast by their repetitive surfaces. If they care to disobey the rules, moreover, and meditate on the symbolism of Judd's boxes, the possibilities are endless. What is a box, they say, if not a coffin, a house, a treasure chest? As for that series...
...pool going. In spite of their agreement to do so, rumors spread-and were vigorously denied-that both Belgium and Italy were dropping out of the pool; the rumors only fanned the flames of speculation. Martin emerged from the Basel meeting to describe himself as "satisfied" with its decisions. Bank of England Governor Sir Leslie O'Brien added that "I am very pleased with the results and I hope the world will...
...Italy, Jelle Zijlstra of The Netherlands, and Edwin Stopper of Switzerland-favored the view that the time has come to try the "two-tier" system of gold prices that many an economist has been urging. Under the two-tier idea, the U.S. and its economic allies would continue central-bank exchanges of gold and dollars at the $35-an-ounce price. But "mercantile" gold-that which is bought by speculators and industrial users-would be left free to seek its own price. The advantage of the system is that the open-market price might very well drop low enough...