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...times the 750,000 oz. it offered. That, along with rumors of especially heavy orders for gold from buyers in the Middle East, stirred a wave of panic buying that pushed the price of bullion up by a record $24 an oz. in just one day. Trading was so hectic that the normal 500-an-oz. spread between buying and selling prices widened at times to $5. Gold hit an all-time high of $380 in London before slipping back at week's end to $369-up nearly $40 in just 14 days and a staggering $164 in twelve...
...tenor spends a month with his family in a converted farmhouse overlooking the Adriatic in Pesaro. Here, after eleven hectic months as a public performer, he can be a private man, an Italian papa. After a whirl of cosmopolitan continent-hopping, he can return to his cultural roots...
...ceremonies at El Arish marked the beginning of an extraordinarily hectic weekend in Middle East peace keeping. With Secretary of State Cyrus Vance participating, talks between Israeli and Egyptian negotiators on autonomy for the West Bank and Gaza began in the desert town of Beersheba, in Israel's Negev area. The opening discussions were slightly clouded by a last-minute dispute between Egypt and Israel over whether the two nations would open their borders immediately, as Israeli Premier Menachem Begin says Sadat promised earlier this spring, or at the end of nine months, as called for by the treaty...
...hectic pace demands actors who can keep up with it, and here the Loeb production is blessed. William Falk--who plays Voltaire, Dr. Pangloss, the malevolent Spanish Governor, a Sultan and a Sage--gives five masterful performances and dominates the show from start to finish. With breathtakingly fast costume changes, Falk bounces between characters and never loses control. Even his face seems to change when he switches from the kindly Voltaire to the murderous Governor. His various accents are all convincing and consistent...
...into public life of two old foes of Deng: Secret Police Chief Wang Dongxing (Wang Tung-hsing) and former Peking Mayor Wu De (Wu Teh). This did not mean, however, that the Vice Premier was in serious political trouble. Rather, the probability was that Deng had to slow the hectic pace of modernization in order to secure the continued cooperation of his colleagues...