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...tons of gold that the IMF and the U.S. Treasury have put on the market in the past five years has been scooped up by one buyer: West Germany's Dresdner Bank. And its drive into gold has been pressed by one man, Hans-Joachim Schreiber, 46, who was appointed to the bank's board of directors five years ago. His faith in the metal dates to his youth in postwar Germany, where, he recalls, "some people owed their survival to the possession of a few ounces of gold...
...uncertainty and lack of faith in paper money, shot up $12.45 in three days and broke the $300-per-oz. barrier. It reached a record $303.85 before settling back slightly at week's end to just below $299. But the decline could well be temporary. Says Hans-Joachim Schreiber, the chief trader of West Germany's Dresdner Bank, which has been the biggest buyer at recent U.S. Treasury gold auctions: "There are no forces working to depress the gold price...
Great Stud-Farms of the World by Monique and Hans D. Dossenbach, Hans Joachim Köhler (Morrow; 289 pages; $35). The authors have composed an encyclopedic and lushly illustrated celebration of horses and the places where they are bred. Surely the animal has not received such intelligently loving attention since Siegfried Sassoon published his Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man in 1928. After tracing the history of horse breeding to the time when the animals first entered the service of man some 5,000 or 6,000 years ago, probably in the steppes north of the Caucasus, the authors...
...these walkers, Joachim Lally, a priest at the Paulist Center, said he feels less tired in years when he walks as a clown because "the focus is outside myself...
...film marks the crest of the "Hitler wave," which began in the early 1970s with a flood of books on the Reichskanzler and his era. Producer Joachim Fest, co-publisher of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and author of Hitler, a massive 1973 biography, drew on film clips of the 1920s, '30s and '40s. Using his book's conclusions as a base, Fest set out to make a movie that would explore how an obscure Austrian postcard artist could win power and put it to such evil purposes. As the newspaper Die Welt noted in its review...