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...dealer of the Morgan Guaranty bank in London. Barham commands a team of nine dealers in a small office crammed with telephones and Teletype machines that connect with other dealers. On an average day, Barham and his men buy and sell about $260 million worth of foreign money, and lend and borrow nearly $1 billion more, largely in Eurodollars. Corporations and banks use the borrowings to finance their speculative short selling of weak currencies...
...Chinese were prepared to lend a hand within limits. Indeed, they are believed to have urged such negotiations when Le Due Tho, Hanoi's chief delegate to the Paris peace talks, visited Peking a few days earlier. The Chinese have made it clear in private that they disapprove of Hanoi's current offensive-and of the conventional-type warfare that the North Vietnamese have been waging with Soviet weaponry. Thus they have recently provided only military aid to Hanoi and have closed their harbors to Soviet ships bearing supplies for North Viet...
...most effective orator. The moment when Antony first confronts Caesar's corpse and soliloquizes while hugging the body in his arms is the most moving in the production. But his handling of the famous funeral oration is disappointing. His timing here, and often elsewhere, is all off. He delivers "Lend me your ears" and "I come to bury Caesar" in a run-on manner that makes no sense whatever. He should study the fresh and definitive Antony of Marlon Brando in the movie. I do, however, like the way Hecht points out the several cuts in Caesar's mantle, which...
GIBSON ESTIMATED last week that the College would lend out over $1 million next year under the new program to between 1000 and 1200 students. He predicted that the total University loan figure might reach $4 million although final figures are not available from several faculties...
Negotiators had the most trouble over trade. Russia wants lots of credit to buy badly needed grain from the U.S. It also wants to share in American technological advances. The U.S., on the other hand, insists that Russia first pay back $800 million it still owes America in Lend-Lease debts. Unable to reach an agreement on the issue, the negotiators established a joint commission that will continue to dicker...