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...Jaime Patino, "had taken everything-all her clothes, her jewels and my jewels -and gone." In Yugoslavia, on official invitation from Marshal Tito's government, Harold C. McClellan, president of the U.S.'s National Association of Manufacturers, rubbed shoulders with the country's Communists for a fortnight, browsed through Titoland's economy, then headed home with a backward glance surprising for a capitalist. Said he: "These people believe they will eventually get all the bugs out of their system. I don't believe they will, but nobody's going to tell 'em ... They...
...later wrote, "our little camp [at Portsmouth, England] was shaking and shuddering under a wind of almost hurricane proportions." The worst June storm in 20 years raged over the Channel; already the invasion had been postponed a day, and now there seemed no choice but to delay for another fortnight, at least, until the tides were right again. Heavyhearted, Ike splashed through the rain to a fateful 4 a.m. meeting with his meteorologists and top commanders. An agonizing choice was posed by the latest forecast: a brief break in the storm, perhaps 24 hours...
Tensely, the assembled Allied command looked to Ike for decision. In such weather, airborne and amphibious landings could be disastrous; the storm, resuming, might isolate the leading elements cross-Channel. On the other hand, a fortnight of delay would demoralize 2,000,000 pent-up troops, tangle intricate plans, and perhaps tip off the Germans. The conference lapsed into silence while Ike briefly pondered the dangers. Then he looked up, his face brightening. "Well," he said...
...comes to the royal family, the phlegmatic British go all soppy. Newspapers employ droves of columnists to simper publicly over the beauty of small Prince Charles's dimples, to sigh over the elegance of Prince Philip's taste in haberdashery. When the Queen came home a fortnight ago, after six months' absence on her round-the-world tour, the sighs became a gale. Sample from Author Beverley Nichols: "At last she came to the Duke of Edinburgh and those two adorable children. 'I guess those are the four most important people in the world,' said...
Britain, which had to devalue its currency in 1949 to encourage the inflow of dollars, has decided that dollars are no longer needed so badly. Last fortnight the Bank of England put an end to a special inducement for foreign capital by cutting the discount rate (at which it lends money to private banks) from a relatively high 3½% to 3%. Last week West Germany's central bank followed suit. The effect was to reduce the interest that dollars (and other currencies) can earn by going abroad. At the same time, the cut meant lower interest rates...