Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss said last week that Bonn might revalue if other strong currencies-the Swiss, Dutch, Italian and Belgian-would also rise slightly. As Strauss told TIME'S Ball: "We know perfectly well that the D-mark is undervalued against certain currencies, but this is not the case against certain others." Officials of most of the countries in question disagree...
They were still heavily outgunned in shares and assigned proxies, 72 million to 308 million. But, as one insurgent shouted, "I have been in India and I know the meaning of passive resistance. We will stay here ten days if necessary." A filibuster was on. Every now and then, somebody would jump up and shout: "Shareholders of Montedison, resist!" The meeting went on for 17 hours until 2:30 a.m. Ultimately, Valerio and the government forces had to accept a stalemate. The proposed rule change was tabled, pending a future session...
...happened that Frederick thought highly of Billy. He took him under his shield in far-away Chicago and taught him everything a princeling should know - which was a great deal - about running Armour. He saw to it that Billy, who was handsome and quick-witted, traveled and developed regal tastes...
...Photographer Melvin Sokolsky. "He'd seen me at Bazaar," she recalls, "and offered me $100 a week, twice what I was making. I was married then, and needed the money. Before I left, Diana Vreeland warned me, 'You can't leave now. You don't know enough.' " But Ali learns quickly, and she soon made herself a permanent studio fixture. She did everything: made up the models, adjusted the lighting, hunted for an endless variety of photographer's props all over New York. "I think I must know where to get just about anything...
...wife -and from art. Beppo is a truly queer dens ex machina; yet Malamud clearly intends him for the role. It is Beppo, in fact, who finally gives Fidelman the word on his "painter's progress": "After twenty years if the rooster hasn't crowed she should know she's a hen." And it is Beppo who points instructively to the future: "If you can't invent art, invent life...