Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early Monday morning, as the first sightseeers wandered around, surrounded by the still spotless carpet, the shiny floors, and the expanses of glass, an electrician worked on the lights inside, and a crew of men arrived to put flowers in the large white tubs on the central courtyard...
...sportsmanlike attitude if ever there was one, but what can one expect from a Communist from Havana? Or, for that matter, from the U.S. State Depart ment, the CIA, the FBI and nine Cuban exile organizations, all of which sent operatives to Puerto Rico last week for the Central American and Caribbean Games...
...Bank for International Settlements and eleven countries last week had to renew the billion-dollar bundle for Britain. The pound, which two weeks ago had dropped to a 15-month low of $2.78 27/32, rallied to $2.79 2/32. But in the finance ministries and central banks of Europe and North America, money managers were asking: "How long, O Lord, how long?" Ex actly how long does the world have to continue to prop up the pound...
...Limit. Disillusioned and impatient, many foreign bankers do not care to answer any more SOS calls from London, even though they have a stake in the pound as an international reserve currency. Says one leading European central banker: "What we did once again was to buy time for the British. What use they will make of it remains to be seen, but we are quite pessimistic." Another banker puts an "absolute limit" of one year on continuing to bail out Britain. The French, who chipped in $100 million to last week's rescue for purely political reasons because they...
Members of the New Society wasted no time congratulating themselves on the party. And why not? It attracted more than 500 guests, raised $55,000 for the festival, which, in addition to offering free Shakespeare in Central Park six nights a week all summer, is planning to put on a winter season of contemporary plays. At least, last week's party was contemporary...