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...Jacobsson of Sweden went to Vienna determined to wrest from the most prosperous member nations a pledge to put up the money for a special $6 billion reserve that the Fund could call on in a crisis. Since all I.M.F. nations have a stake in the health of the dollar-a large percentage of their own reserves are in dollars-they readily agreed to the reserve in principle. But several Western European countries, led by France, clamped strict limits on their participation, declared that they would have to give approval in each case before any of their pledged funds could...
...anti-inflationary note was introduced into cancer research last week. Dr. David A. Karnofsky reported that for preliminary testing of anti-cancer drugs he uses the fertilized egg of the sand dollar-a lowly echinoderm, kin of the starfish, and a delight to beachcombing children...
...Kaiser's proposal, New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges cried "unutterable gall." But Kaiser had a case of a sort. The Government, he pointed out, had sold the $200 million Geneva steel mill to U.S. Steel Corp. for 20.9? on the dollar-a loss of $162 million. (The other side of this argument was that Geneva had been auctioned off-and Big Steel got it because no one else wanted to pay the price it offered...
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