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...others; Britain, needing every penny it mints, no longer can, but has long insisted on continuing to try. The result is that when the Bank of England is driven to the wall to defend sterling, it may discover that as much as 75% of the supply of pounds extant is in the hands of foreigners-and out of reach...
...Parsis still excommunicate a woman who marries outside the sect, refuse to accept her children into the faith. Not only is intermarriage more common today, but younger Parsis are growing indifferent to the elaborate rituals and obscure doctrines of the faith. Relatively few Parsis can even read the three extant volumes containing Zoroaster's teachings, which are written in an ancient Persian dialect. Although proud of their history, many Parsis increasingly regard the religion they profess as an expression of a unique cultural heritage rather than as a faith to be lived...
...Antiques Extant. The mayor's prestige was at stake in two congressional races. Seeking a ninth term aboard Daley's delegation to Washington, Rep resentative Barratt O'Hara - who at 84 is the oldest member of the House -was challenged by Abner Mikva, 40, a liberal with a distinguished ten-year rec ord in the state legislature. Though O'Hara rarely gets home to his problem-racked South Side constituency, the smooth-purring Democratic machine came to his rescue, helping him to win, 33,789 to 31,180. Said O'Hara, a Spanish-American...
...grab bag-or a distinguished book. Sometimes the grab-bag approach results in your flaying the editor. Why not, then, celebrate the impeccable, imaginative editing that has produced Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters [Jan. 21]? Here the art of editing included the locating, sorting, choosing from and annotating the extant correspondence of history's most prolific letter writer, and creating a brilliant epistolary biography. Dan Laurence deserved more than merely having his name printed (in reduced type) with the descriptive matter at the head of your review...
However, only about 20 complete sets and scattered single volumes of the 1000 odd sets originally published in China an extant in U.S. Sinological institutes and libraries. Their current market price in Hong Kong...