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This was the cue for Communist dem onstrations in half a dozen West Eu ropean cities; Nikita Khrushchev, no stranger to executions, had the gall to send a personal appeal for clemency to Franco. Grimau's wife vainly urged President Kennedy to intervene. The international pressure only stiffened the regime's determination to carry out the penalty. At a meeting with his Cabinet, Franco upheld the sentence...
...called the International Monetary Fund, set up at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 to give emergency, short-term aid to ailing economies. The IMF has become a powerful and controversial force in the world economy, forcing upon loan-seeking nations stiff conditions that frequently rescue their economies but gall their free-spending politicians. With loans at work in 24 developing nations, the IMF swings considerable weight from the Nile to the River Plate. Last week the IMF announced that it will grant larger loans to nations whose economies suffer from temporary declines in prices of their exports...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable" on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may well match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times indeed, approaching...
...Robert Montgomery, 58, actor and television producer, and Brigadier General David Sarnoff, 71, RCA board chairman, both in good condition after being parted from their gall bladders in separate Manhattan hospitals...
Never before has a President's brother served in the Senate, Lodge said, because "no one has had the gall to attempt it." He saw the election of Kennedy as a threat to the "constitutional framework of the government...