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...thoroughly captured the imagination of men through the ages as blind Homer's tale of the siege and sack of Troy. Yet many classical scholars and archaeologists have long suspected that the Iliad and the Odyssey are far more laudable as poetry than as history. The latest skepticism about the poet's recounting of the Trojan War comes from a distinguished German classicist, Dr. Helmut Berve, who has spent most of his life studying ancient Greece. Disturbed by what he calls a "readiness to believe in the historical core behind all myths, especially in the Anglo-Saxon world...
...importing from European branches by the billions and then lending out. The Federal Reserve has misread the economy twice in the past three years and has prematurely expanded credit. It is not likely to do so again until the signs are unmistakably clear that inflation has been reversed. The latest readings of the consumer price index and the leading indicators suggest that what the Federal Reserve and the Nixon Administration have done so far is right. Now the Administration can demonstrate political courage by continuing on course, and Congress can do the same by maintaining the surtax...
...uncomplacent 60, he knows that nothing turns off a young radical quicker than old radicals who say "When I was a boy ..." Yet ironically, compassionately, he sees the New Left making many of the old youthful mistakes. And what is a father figure to do? In his latest work, Spender hopefully jumps in to say his piece about what he diplomatically calls "nostalgic ideas springing from new lips...
...Washington, Treasury Secretary David Kennedy sent a long-distance rebuke to some of the bankers, who had been talking freely in Copenhagen about ordering still another rise in the prime rate. Kennedy defended the latest increase but told bankers that in the future they had better "find other methods to make those difficult credit-allocation decisions." The clear warning from Treasury: No more increases. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve Board is considering telling U.S. bankers to "voluntarily" limit their loans to the total that they now have outstanding...
...great lengths to please women who are partial to its high fashion and unperturbed about the tall prices that go with it. For favored customers who are far from its 21 stores in the West, Magnin offers to fly a fitter, a salesperson and a collection of the latest styles anywhere in the U.S., free of charge. Such excursions often produce orders...