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...some $1.7 billion in francs was sold, forcing France to use its gold reserves to support the parity of its currency. The run stopped only when the world's currency markets were closed down for three days to give the West's industrial nations, the so-called Group of Ten, a chance to solve the crisis. After three days of almost nonstop sessions in Bonn, the financial experts emerged confident that they had found the solution. In a showdown, the West Germans refused to revalue the mark...
French and German intransigence sent Europe's monetary system reeling toward the brink of crisis. On the day that Schiller, chairman of the Group of Ten, summoned the world's leading central bankers and finance ministers to an emergency meeting in Bonn, demand for gold in London hit the highest level since March. In New York, sterling hit rock bottom at $2.38. In Swiss money markets, it slipped even lower. The dollar, by comparison, weathered the crisis fairly well, reflecting general confidence that the U.S. was finally doing something convincing about its balance of payments problem...
...were going to fire him, so he quit. In rapid succession, Mariano Rumor, the Christian Democratic party secretary, resigned his post, and Aldo Moro, who held the job of Premier during the five years of the center-left coalition, surprised everyone by suddenly withdrawing his supporters from the majority group that rules the party. The country could only wait until the Christian Democrats settled their power struggle, but in the end another center-left coalition seemed to be the only solution...
...fifth of the U.S. population, the risk of dying before age 35 is four times the U.S. average. In this group, adults have four times as much disabling heart disease, ten times as much visual impairment, six times as much mental illness, mental retardation and nervous disorder. This one-fifth constitutes the nation's poor-40 million Americans, by the Government's admittedly rough estimates...
Optimistic pessimists who believe that regional theater is the nation's dramatic hope can find some strong supporting evidence in Atlanta. There, a three-year-old shoestring repertory group that calls itself Theater Atlanta has been delighting sell-out audiences with a sharp, snappy satire that is as regional as the round little restaurant owner who is its subject: Governor Lester Maddox. Broadway, fortunately, is not so dead as to ignore a show that is pulling customers to West Peachtree Street from 30 miles around. Last week Edward Padula, producer of Bye Bye Birdie and A Joyful Noise, announced...