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...some (such as Rhone-Poulenc and Michelin) skyrocketed by 40% or more. Yet the French economy remains in the doldrums. Unemployment is high, industrial production is sluggish, and most French businessmen are worried about the July 1, 1968, deadline when disappearing Common Market tariff barriers will expose them to harsher competition. Reasons for the stock climb: Bourse prices simply got so low that they began to look like bargain-basement buys to investors throughout Europe; the French government intervened to inspire stock purchasing by, among other things, allowing French companies to use up to 10% of their capital...
Morgenthau's plan, extreme as it was, forced other Administration thinkers-including a reluctant and obviously ailing F.D.R.-to give serious thought to the shape of postwar Germany. At the Quebec Conference in September 1944, Morgenthau got F.D.R. to win concessions from Churchill on a harsher German policy. Then the politics of the 1944 presidential campaign entered the equation...
...concert, often require more than 100 instrumentalists and at least that many singers (his Eighth Symphony is scored for as many as 1,000 musicians). Folk tunes, military marches and café ditties jostle each other in the symphonies-sometimes with deliberately sarcastic effect-against rich, romantic textures and harsher lines that range out boldly to the limits of traditional tonality. Mahler plunges the listener from surging eddies of counterpoint into brooding, tragic depths, or lifts him with sudden paroxysms of melody into the heights of metaphysical yearning...
...possible in the United Nations," said Presidential Press Secretary George Christian. But the U.N. has performed ineptly, particularly in what Britain's Wilson described as the "precipitous and regrettable" withdrawal of the peacekeeping force from the Egyptian-Israeli border. New York Times Columnist C. L. Sulzberger was even harsher in his judgment. In meekly pulling out the U.N. force, he wrote, Secretary-General U Thant "used his international prestige with the objectivity of a spurned lover and the dynamism of a noodle...
...incurring official wrath, two Israeli editors were dealt even harsher punishment than Colonel Moranda. Last December, Shemuel Mohr and Maxim Ghilan decided to try a little political sensationalism to boost the circulation (10,000) of their sex-oriented magazine, Bui. Under the headline "Stinking International Affair," they wrote that Israeli government officials were hushing up facts about the kidnaping of Moroccan Leftist Mehdi ben Barka in 1965. Not only were the French and Moroccan secret services involved in the plot, suggested Bui, but so was Israel...