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...gilded bric-a-brac. In another room, shallow honeycombs of orange-crate cabinetry are filled with carefully posed objects-chair legs, a broken wheel, a bowling pin. parts of a table pedestal, a banister, some toilet seats-all gleaming goldly. The owner of this hammer-and-nails Fort Knox is Scavenger-Sculptress Louise Nevelson...
...find out that Mr. Updike was born in Shillington, Pa., where he received his secondary education, and that after Harvard he studied art in England on a Knox fellowship. We learned that he is married (to a Radcliffe alumnae) and has four children. But then it really was noon, and we scurried off to catch up on modern novels...
...that the brisk trade in Eurodollars has had at least two beneficial results: 1) it has helped meet the growing demand for trade credits among Western nations; 2) it has discouraged foreign banks from converting their dollar balances into U.S. gold, and thus has eased the drain on Fort Knox. The Eurodollar, most experts agree, will gradually disappear if U.S. interest rates rise to European levels, or the U.S. payments deficit ends...
...sadistic Russian agent who had secretly taken over a Caribbean isle and was all ready to divert U.S. missiles launched from nearby Cape Canaveral. In one of his most brilliant coups, Bond thwarted a SMERSH fiend named Auric Goldfinger, who tried to explode an A-bomb in Fort Knox in order to seize, naturally, all the U.S. gold; Goldfinger was so deeply committed to the gold standard that he could only make love to women coated in 14-carat gold paint...
...more abroad than it has taken in. Despite a healthy trade surplus, the U.S. has pumped so much into postwar foreign aid and military spending overseas (total: more than $100 billion) that its balance of payments has run a net deficit of $20 billion over the past decade. Fort Knox has onlv $4.7 billion left to go before it breaks through the $11.7 billion floor of gold legally required to back U.S. paper currency and the banking system. Although the Fed can suspend the requirement at will, a drop below that minimum could cause a run on the dollar...