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...Marshal Tito's government took a step toward making its money honest. It announced last week that the Yugoslav dinar, pegged at a phony rate of 50 to $1 while its free market value dropped as low as 700 to $1, was being devalued to a rate of 300 to $1. The cut came after two months of conference with a visiting mission of the 5O-nation International Monetary Fund, which advised Yugoslavia that its best chance of trading with the West would come from cleaning up its currency...
Decision Before Dawn (20th Century-Fox), like the controversial Desert Fox, goes behind enemy lines of World War II for a sympathetic view of a German soldier. But unlike Marshal Rommel, the new film's hero is no Nazi who turned against Hitler too late and for the wrong reasons. He is a sensitive young Luftwaffe medic (Oskar Werner) who becomes a U.S. spy out of convictions that outweigh his queasiness at being pitted momentarily against his countrymen...
...private audience, a visiting Congressman recently asked: "Marshal Tito, when are you going to release Cardinal Mindszenty?" Tito smiled, apparently waiting for the Congressman to correct what must be a slip of the tongue. It wasn...
...voice on the telephone was polished and authoritative, as befitted a Grand Marshal of the Court of Belgium. "My Reverend Mother," it announced, "I am going to surprise you: His Majesty the King is visiting some schools this afternoon, and he has decided to begin with your institute." The mother superior of Heverlé's School of the Sacred Heart for Girls gasped: "His Majesty? This afternoon? Oh, what an honor. How can we thank the court?" "It is not," said the voice on the telephone suavely, "a matter of thanks, but a sign of the particular interest...
Died. Prince Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere, 85, Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, hereditary "Marshal of the Conclave" at which Popes are elected, dabbler in science (he was an expert on marine worms); of angina pectoris; in Rome...