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ACKNOWLEDGING THE frequent complaints by consumers that babies were too cumbersome to carry in wallets, Congress issued a new currency. The Baby Bill of The United States Treasury was issued as redeemable for one baby from the Fort Knox Nursery. The system made transactions much less complicated than the unwieldy act of trading huge numbers of babies back and forth for every deal--especially on Wall Street where the cost of shuttling thousands of babies back and forth every time the Dow Jones shifted was excessive...
ATTEMPTING TO understand Emo Philips is like trying to rob Fort Knox--you may not get all of the gold, but even a little goes a long way. This three-time veteran of Late Night with David Letterman is at once a childlike, offbeat comedian and a political commentator, a philosopher and a celebrity...
...Anderson, Filmmaker Frank Capra, Composer Aaron Copland, Painter Willem de Kooning, Choreographer Agnes de Mille, Actress Eva Le Gallienne, Folklorist Alan Lomax, Critic Lewis Mumford and Novelist Eudora Welty. But also on hand were some who gave generously to encourage such work: Houston Art Patron Dominique de Menil, Seymour Knox of Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Exxon Corp...
...most highly indebted countries in the world. By contrast, overall World Bank loans for the same period rose by only 16%. In Latin America, policy loans accounted for about 40% of the $4.8 billion that the World Bank dispensed in the twelve months ending in June. Says David Knox, the World Bank's vice president for Latin America and the Caribbean: "The debt crisis has led a lot of Latin American governments to do some hard thinking about their policies. We think the tide is running in a sensible direction, so we are trying to swim with...
...Barry Knox, a New York financial adviser, testified that he met twice with Mrs. Marcos in 1984 to discuss the status of four Manhattan properties. Knox said that Joseph Bernstein, a New York developer who has been linked in court records and press reports to supposed Marcos real estate transactions, had told him in several conversations that Mrs. Marcos owns all four properties. Bernstein, who faces contempt charges before the full House for failing to answer subcommittee questions, told TIME last week that the Marcoses "have no equity participation in any of the real estate deals we are handling...