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...drained labor and materials from the civilian economy, further widening the gap between supply and demand. Building workers' wages have doubled in the last six weeks, while everyone from bartender to B-girl demands and gets higher prices for his services. In the country's boom-and-bust mood, speculators, profiteers and black-market rings have battened greedily on the cities. While banks will give only 74 piasters to the U.S. dollar, the going black-market rate has soared from 125 piasters four months ago to as much as 170 today...
Murray Kaufman, as only the K's bank manager knows him, is something of an expert in the field-he was a dropout himself 25 years ago from The Bronx's DeWitt Clinton High ("Man, you feel you gotta bust out"). Further, as a disk jockey who is both widely syndicated (he claims 106 stations) and well connected (he is known by his fans as "the Fifth Beatle," and has been included in the Beatles' impending movie), he should know what's happening. His show for Sarge's Office of Economic Opportunity had almost...
Elephantiac Foot. Giacometti's search is for the man within the graven image. "Heads, heads, heads!" he cries. "I've been doing nothing but heads for years. I'm no farther along than when I did my first bust at 13. Nothing I do will ever be finished, everything remains just another study." The sculptor maligns himself. Actually, his figures, singly and in groups, stand in ever more complex relationships. Increasingly, he has become discontent to leave his bronzes bare, painting their stark silhouettes as if providing the emperor's new clothes. Scale, too, remains...
...auction at Christie's auction house in London (TIME, March 26), Titus was hammered down for $2,234,400, a record price for Britain and only $65,000 less than the historic price that New York's Metropolitan Museum paid four years ago for Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer...
After that, he settles down to talk to guests ranging from Bob Hope and California Governor Pat Brown to book-plugging authors and bust-pushing starlets. Like aspirin, the ingredients are all known-story-topping sessions with fellow comedians, the all-out effort from the unknown singer, back talk from Bandleader Skitch Henderson. And, like aspirin, it is fast-acting, pain-relieving, and generally pleasant...