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...officials prepared to charge fees instead of paying interest for short-term foreign-currency deposits. This would guard against an outbreak of speculation should the dollar begin to sink in the weeks ahead. As the week progressed, that plan hardly seemed necessary. With the Swiss Central Bank poised to buoy up the price of the dollar if it fell below an undisclosed "base level," the Swiss franc merely wobbled fretfully anywhere from 1.2% to 2.8% above its normal dollar exchange rate. In Paris, where a complex two-tier system separates fixed-rate international trade and business dollars from tourist...
...that nothing is impossible," says Mrs. Kevin McManus, secretary-treasurer of the National League. "It's a tremendous boost. People do care now." Many wives take the Son Tay raid as an overdue sign of concern on the part of the U.S. Government; they also feel that it will buoy the morale of their imprisoned husbands. No one, however, is quite sure just how the prisoners will find out about the raid, for Hanoi has not specifically mentioned the rescue mission...
...more time: the purring of the Atlantic Ocean by night, to the visual beat of four tiny buoy lights, red, green and blue, blinking on and off in god knows whose rhythm, is a form of music if you too are sitting there feeling the instability of the cosmos and brooding...
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...first half of the race, Harvard was still within a half length of New Zealand, but West Germany had moved up to press New Zealand for the front spot. And by the 1500-meter buoy, Harvard had slipped to fourth and continued to fade...