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...confidence in the pound was restored so quickly that only $250 million of the money was actually borrowed-on ?300 million security posted by Britain, to be repaid at 4.5% in ten installments from 1960 to 1965. Last week, with Britain's economic rebound having turned into a full-fledged boom, and the first favorable balance of trade with the U.S. since 1865 (TIME, Aug. 31), Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat Amory proudly announced in the House of Commons that Britain was immediately repaying all $250 million, plus $5,500,000 in interest, an impressive 5½ years...
...broadly comic stage business, which kept the house rippling with laughter. When the young page Cherubino pours out his adolescent romantic yearnings in Act I, he does so in Ritchard's version while holding on to a pair of women's drawers draped across a clothesline full of underthings. At the act's end, when Figaro mockingly congratulates Cherubino on his future military career, he punctuates the aria Non più andrai with a solid boot to the rump. But Ritchard's worst sin, according to the purist critics, was turning the Countess from a person...
...full translation by five scholars* of all 114 "sayings"-together with the Coptic-language text-has been published as The Gospel According to Thomas (Harper...
...hear. But others have a surprising new emphasis, like the saying which immediately follows the above and seems to indicate that one can lose one's chance to enter the Kingdom through ignorance: The Kingdom of the Father is like a woman who was carrying a jar full of meal. While she was walking on a distant road, the handle of the jar broke. The meal streamed out behind her on the road. She did not know it, she had noticed no accident. After she came into her house, she put the jar down, she found it empty...
...more colleges) to C.E.E.B. membership for the first time. Reason: with more curriculums based on college tests, the schools want a voice in running C.E.E.B. ¶ Heard a prediction from C.E.E.B. President Frank Bowles that the average U.S. college within 25 years will boost requirements by one full year-applying the same standards to incoming freshmen as it does now to sophomores...