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...even with a more responsive audience, problems will remain. George Rosen is always droll as Finian, a dotty old Irishman who has stolen a crock of leprechaun gold and buried it near Fort Knox, an area he believes conducive to spontaneous generations. Carolyn Firth, his ready, nubile, and willing daughter, is a pretty girl and a charming actress. But neither of them seems quite at home in a brogue; Rosen at times simply deserts Belfast for Brooklyn. And Miss Firth, for all the attractiveness of her voice, shares with many of the other singers a tendency toward inaudibility...
...could oppose that? Being against M.I.T. was like being against Ft. Knox...
...best has created something more noble and touching than a Marxist Messiah, and more authentic than the customary sun-kissed Hollywood Christ. The film's dialogue, for example, comes intact from the Book of Matthew (with English subtitles translated according to the English edition by Monsignor Ronald Knox...
Because foreign central banks have built up?and cashed in?tremendous stocks of dollars, Fort Knox's bullion hoard, which backs the value of the dollar, has plunged in the past seven years from $21 billion to $13.9 billion. Foreigners now hold $27.7 billion in dollars?almost twice the value of the U.S. gold supply?and they can demand gold for them at any time. Though it is highly unlikely that they would ever cash in enough to break Fort Knox or force the U.S. to devalue the dollar, the mere fact that they have the power...
...Giscard d'Estaing have pushed to upgrade the trading power of gold (of which France has plenty), cashing in $800 million worth of dollars for U.S. bullion. Imitating the French, West Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland have also traded in many millions of dollars for Fort Knox's gold...