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...relation to Japan's, far less than the 12% to 15% revaluation that the Administration hopes will eventually occur. Tokyo's Finance Ministry announced that in the first eight months of 1971, Japan's dollar holdings increased from $4.4 billion to $12.5 billion -a staggering leap of nearly 200% that is likely to be remembered as a historic beating for the dollar. British officials, worried that the pound might gain too much against the dollar and thus make British exports too expensive, took measures atoned at keeping speculative money out of the country. After forbidding interest payments...
...stream of well-wishes last week. Tally Palmer was less than overcome with gratitude. "What Macomber did," she said, "is no more than what the Department was required to do by President Kennedy's executive order of 1962 [banning race and sex discrimination]. This is no great leap forward...
Frank lives for pole vaulting. He holds a B.S. in the sport from Regensburg (Ohio) College, having just passed with a leap of 10 ft. His ambition in life is to clear the bar at 12 ft. After World War II, during which he managed 10 ft. 6 in. outside a castle in Germany, Frank becomes a balding fixture at all the local meets back home. Competing with a bamboo pole years after everyone else has switched to fiber glass, he achieves his goal at age 45. But the pole snaps and Frank is skewered to death on its splinters...
...Chinese Nationalists. By Walker's reckoning, as many as 3,034,000 were killed in the civil war, the Sino-Japanese War and the Korean War. "Several million landlords" died during the 1949-52 land reform, up to 2,000,000 Chinese during the 1958-61 Great Leap Forward, 500,000 during the 1966-69 Cultural Revolution, as many as 1,000,000 as a result of efforts to suppress minorities in Tibet and other areas, perhaps 25 million in forced labor camps, and up to 30 million in political liquidation campaigns from...
...Rosenzweig met a converted Jew, Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, who had abandoned his Judaism for Lutheranism. In a climactic all-night conversation in July 1913, Rosenzweig agreed to follow Rosenstock's lead, but vowed to enter the church "as a Jew," like the earliest Christians. While preparing for the leap, Rosenzweig went to services in a small Orthodox synagogue in Berlin on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. He never publicly revealed what happened to him at the service, but he emerged from it a changed man, no longer willing-or even able -to become a Christian. Later...