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...sign, it is only because he believes that he needs a new image. By insisting that he was never an extremist on either side ("I am not a captive of any extremists of any viewpoint"), he is countering the welter of criticism with considerable success. He stands an excel lent chance of winning a majority in next week's primary or, if not then, in a runoff election that would probably follow. Old Tiger Faubus may have lost his teeth, but in Arkansas there seems to be no lion in the streets strong enough to threaten him seriously...
Export-Import Bank has lent it $1.5 million, and the Venezuelan government (which stands to save $3.3 million a year in foreign exchange through INSA's operations...
...Fenway, stands as a monument to the success of the acquisitive instinct in art collecting. According to the rather peculiar terms of Mrs. Gardner's will, the collection can not be added to or rearranged, nor can any work be removed, nor is anything permitted to be lent to other museums...
piled up as a result of the movement of capital out of Europe inspired by World War II. But the hoard is dwindling fast because the U.S., since the war. has spent, lent and invested 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...
Twining & Twisting. A more conventional setting for a royal fling was the Dutch luxury liner Oranje, which its owners lent to Queen Juliana for an evening cruise along the North Sea Canal. Sporting $12 million worth of jewelry, the titled guests were joined midway by 180 college friends of Juliana's four daughters. Among the friends: a 25-year-old lawyer, Bob Steensma, who has often been photographed holding hands and drinking wine with Princess Beatrix, 24, heiress apparent to the Dutch throne...