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...movements, have climbed 14% in a year. Tin and zinc prices have been edging up, and a worldwide jump in copper prices two weeks ago brought immediate markups in copper and brass products; last week aluminum producers lifted prices on a broad range of products. Treasury Secretary Henry H. Fowler believes that if this trend accelerates "we may have some problems," but that so far it is "not a cause for alarm...
...ORDER AND THE NEW by Wilfred Fowler. 294 pages. Macmillan...
This is a remarkably likable novel about the last days of British rule in Africa. Novelist Fowler's main character is a British civil servant named Wood, and the book consists of two sets of his recollections-those from the beginning of his colonial career in the 1930s, and a sharply contrasting sheaf of observations made 30 years later as the colony in which he is stationed clamors for independence...
...hold a certain primacy of honor among the world's moneymen. This was undeniably the case when Douglas Dillon, as Treasury Secretary and Robert V. Roosa as his Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs were regulars at the monetary meetings. Because it will take time for their successors, Joe Fowler and Fred Deming (a new face at last week's Paris meetings), to build up comparable reputations, the Federal Reserve's Martin has become even more influential in monetary matters. Said Martin in Uruguay last week: "Some people in Washington attack me and say I'm more...
...high-caliber types necessary for any pretense at good government. Now, after 17 months in office, Johnson has made about 130 top-level appointments-and by any reasonable standard his report card would read "excellent." Among the blue-ribbon picks: John T. Connor as Secretary of Commerce, Henry H. Fowler as Secretary of the Treasury, and retired Admiral William Raborn as the new Director of the Central Intelligence Agency...