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...whole new approach to the international monetary system (see U.S. BUSINESS). Admittedly, said De Gaulle, such a measure would cause an enormous upheaval in the world financial structure-which these days is based largely on the dollar. But, De Gaulle went on, "there can be no other criterion, no other standard, than gold-gold that never changes, that can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, that has no nationality and that is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence...
...nations can enjoy "this signal privilege, this signal advantage." The present-day world, said De Gaulle, needs "an indisputable monetary base, and one that does not bear the mark of any particular country. In truth, one does not see how one could really have any standard criterion other than gold...
...mass of people who watch a given network during a given minute, CBS has lost millions of fans. CBS-TV President James T. Aubrey Jr. has built his success on cold formula: quality be damned, programs either score high ratings or drop out. It would follow that the same criterion might apply to a TV president who lives by such a formula, and rumors are all over the industry that Aubrey's own rating is down-but not enough...
...Swan Lake and the 1933 movie King Kong. Dirty movies are Camp -provided one gets no sexual kick out of them-and so are the ideas of the French playwright Jean Genet, an ex-thief and pederast who boasts about it. "Genet's statement that 'the only criterion of an act is its elegance' is virtually interchangeable, as a statement, with Wilde's 'In matters of great importance, the vital element is not sincerity, but style...
...main criterion for land usage is prospective tax returns to the City, but he also believes that any development in the Yards must be compatible with present uses of the Harvard Square area...