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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...testimony for evidence of perjury. Courts have ruled that a sense of credibility must apply to "I do not recall," i.e., a major event in a man's life is not an incident lightly forgotten. Such an event might concern, say, the details of a $20,000 loan or the bugging of a grand jury room. Jimmy Hoffa's forgettery might turn out to be inconvenient after...
...partner with Italy's ENI. From any profits, the Iranian government will skim a 50% royalty off the top; then the remaining 50% will be divided equally between ENI and NIOC. In addition, ENI will ante up NIOC's initial contribution to the joint company on a "loan" basis, pump another $22,250,000 into the venture over the next twelve years...
...director of the Rhodes National Gallery in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, he knew that he would face some problems as new as his gallery. One big one was that in primitive Southern Rhodesia (pop. 2,400,000) there was hardly any art. McEwen flew back to Europe to gather a loan exhibition, only to find that "most of the people I approached on the Continent had never heard of Rhodesia, and those that had saw their cherished treasures hanging in a clearing in the jungle or round the walls of a mud hut." Last week, as a result of McEwen...
...health, education, agriculture and roads. Siles put U.S. dollar help at more than $23 million for the fiscal year-plus an emergency $2,000,000 for Bolivia's drought-parched farm areas. He praised the "evident spirit of international cooperation" demonstrated by the $25 million currency-stabilization loan granted last December by the International Monetary Fund, the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. International Cooperation Administration, pointing to the boliviano's climb (from 13,000 to the dollar...
...economy, the nation's bankers last week gave solid reassurance of the continued strength of the boom. The demand for credit for expansion of all kinds is still so great-and money so tight-that Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. boosted its prime rate for loans from 4% to 4½%. Banks around the country soon followed. Two days later the Federal Reserve Board approved a boost in the discount rate by four of its twelve district banks from 3% to 3½%. The new Fed rates, highest since 1933, were designed to bring...