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...drain can be partially attributed to the success of the four-month-old "two-tier" price system. Under that arrangement, the U.S. now sells bullion at the official $35-per-ounce price only to foreign central banks, thus forcing private speculators to purchase gold on the open market. Gold fever has also been dampened by the fact that France is no longer in a position to cash in dollars for U.S. gold. On the contrary, a good part of the gold that has flowed into the U.S. comes from France, which has been forced to dip into its hoard...
Performances employed more acting mannerisms than acting, and even Daniel Seltzer as Georges used more vocal and physical tricks than this excellent and accomplished actor has ever displayed. Susan Lyke plays Irma at a fever pitch, unmodulated and quickly uninteresting, as was Janet Bowes as a listless Carmen. Michael McKean did the Envoy with excellent comic precision, although by playing it gay he threw the production over the edge, as far as this reviewer was concerned. Only Lisa Kelley successfully conveyed something of the balances and conflicts in Genet's many strange worlds. But as Chantal the revolutionary she comes...
WHEN Hubert Humphrey took to his bed in Washington with a 101° fever, Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty was unsympathetic enough to suggest that the Vice President had contracted a diplomatic malady. The reason for his sudden indisposition, suggested Yorty, was the threat-which indeed materialized-of massive anti-war demonstrations in Los Angeles, where he had been scheduled to address a Democratic Party rally...
...Although accounts of his death vary, the most persistent version is that he succumbed to yellow fever and toppled from his stool during a recital in Rio de Janeiro while performing a composition of his called Morte...
Over the past few months, the investment community has been gripped by a new-issue fever rivaling that of 1961-62. Through the end of May, 156 U.S. companies put their stock on the over-the-counter market for the first time, nearly triple the number that went public during the first five months of last year. By the end of last week, about a third of those new issues had doubled in market value...