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...added that it is "a little frustrating" that she is the first woman appointee to the council. "It would be nice to live in a world where not too much fuss would be made about a female appointment of this nature," she said...
What, then, is all the fuss about? Europeans want dollar devaluation for two reasons. First, it would cushion the shock of currency adjustments by making the gold in their official reserves worth more, even as their dollar holdings lose part of their value. Among the main gainers would be France and Switzerland, which try to keep more than 60% of their reserves in gold. More important, dollar devaluation would constitute a symbolic recognition by Washington that the dollar's troubles are largely the result of U.S. inflation and balance of payments deficits, rather than somehow the fault...
...sentiments of all: "He's got it. He's a nice, likable kid. Nonassuming. It's hard for a kid getting the press like he's getting, but he comes and does his job." Mrs. Sallie Blue agrees. "He's a wonderful boy. He never changes. They make this fuss over him, but he's the same Vida. The only difference is now he paces the floor when I talk to him. He just keeps walking back and forth, kind of nervous and fidgety...
...technicality that Sharon had not properly tried out for the team and thus was ineligible to play, but privately they conceded that they did not want their sons competing with a girl. They also dismissed Sciuto as president of the league. Confused but not embittered by the fuss, Sharon said she had been treated "just like one of the boys" until the parents began "squawking." Said she: "I just wanted to play baseball...
...discussion about California Governor Ronald Reagan's chances for the presidency, an even greater fuss is brewing over the sincerity of his hair. Purred Attorney William Coblentz, a Democratic Party strategist and regent of the University of California: "After all, Reagan is 60, and if he doesn't move soon, it'll be too late. You can dye your hair, but you can't dye corpuscles. Reagan is a menopausal Gary Grant...