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...that time, the U.S. will be able to drift away from the gold pool and greatly lessen the monetary emphasis on gold, thus ridding the world of much of the alarm, speculation and instability caused by what William McChesney Martin calls "that barbarous metal." Most bankers and economists believe that the major monetary trend of the future will be a shift away from gold and toward a truly international paper currency, supported by contributions of currencies from all major nations. When that happens, money will be regulated by men instead of metal, and the value of each nation...
...Drift Capability. By last week, however, laboratories had confirmed A-2 as the cause of illness in at least 15 states. Similar evidence mounted in 15 other states and Washington, D.C. In New York City, deaths due to pneumonia, often flu-related, rose to 109 during the last week in December-a rise of 65% over the same week in 1966. Bedded down with the flu himself, the city's health commissioner, Dr. Edward O'Rourke, had expected the death toll to reach only 91 for the week. From London last week came reports that...
...question facing health officials now: how effective will available vaccines be against this year's A2? Flu viruses have the exasperating capability to "drift" each year, changing characteristics to varying degrees and accreting new "armor" against existing vaccines. So far, the virus "drift" does not appear significant. "Present influenza vaccines," says the Communicable Disease Center's Dr. Stephen Schoenbaum, "should afford adequate protection since they contain A-2 strains similar to the ones we have isolated...
...before fresh blizzards came sweeping down, as U.S. weathermen had predicted. The known dead totaled 15, most of them on the Navajo Reservation, which covers an area nearly as large as Ireland. Arizona state officials feared that more may have frozen to death in the clogged box canyons and drift-billowed deserts. More than 2,000 Army, Navy and Air Force men, Civil Air Patrol flyers and Job Corps workers aided state road and rescue crews in missions varying from "candy drops" (for the 22,000 Indian boarding-school students stranded during the holidays) to "Operation Haylift" (pinpoint parachuting...
...They drift in, and they drift out," explains William N. Wilson Jr., employment director of the Detroit Urban League. Probably no more than a quarter of the 23,000 men originally hired are still at work; at Chrysler, which hired 12,000, the figure is no better than one in ten. "Maybe 100,000 persons have been working on all 23,000 jobs in the past five months," says Wilson. Chrysler was so shocked by its own record that it has given a local social agency $500,000 to find out what went wrong...