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WEST Germany has taken a step toward freer exchange of its money with other currencies. It will allow foreign exporters and businessmen to deposit Deutsche Mark proceeds of their sales in accounts that can be converted to dollars or foreign money. Businessmen from hard-money nations, such as the U.S. and Canada, will have no restrictions, but those from soft-money countries, such as France and Turkey, may convert only to other soft currencies...
...Communist or had seen the light about democracy; rather, Communist strategy now was to abandon guerrilla warfare in favor of political infiltration. Taruc's field commanders got down to cases with a team of army negotiators at Mount Banahaw, 40 miles south of Manila. They offered to deposit their arms in mountain hideouts guarded by their own men, and to surrender the arms after they were convinced of the government's sincerity. In return, they asked a general amnesty and presidential clemency for Huks convicted of crimes. Army Chief of Staff Major General Jesus Vargas snorted: "Impossible...
Professors Elso S. Barghoorn of Harvard and Stanley A. Tyler of the University of Wisconsin announced last week that they had found the oldest fossils so far. In a layer of flint beneath an iron ore deposit in Ontario, they identified two kinds of algae, two of fungi and an organism that they believe may be a calcareous (containing calcium) flagellate. None of them are striking in appearance; they are much like primitive organisms that are still living...
...plant fossils were taken from a deposit of flint rock in the gunflint formation near Schreiber. Out The two researchers identified their find as "the oldest structurally preserved organisms which have been discovered in pre-Cambrian sediments." They are "of great theoretical interest in the evolutionary scheme of primitive life...
...Hans Jaeger (an experienced German physician not yet licensed to practice in Illinois) examined Laura Jean. He saw no sign of shock and told a nurse how to dress the burns. Then he asked Mrs. Lingo whether she had hospitalization insurance. She did not. Could she put up $100 deposit? She could not. Then, said the doctor, the baby would have to go to Cook County Hospital. 10½ miles away. He was sure that she would be all right in a car, and he gave Mrs. Lingo a note to arrange for the admission...