Word: midweekly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weaken, the official attitude began to change. Two weeks ago, Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns told other central bankers that the board would let U.S. short-term interest rates rise-a move that should help stanch the flow of dollars abroad in search of a higher return. Then, at midweek, Connally declared in Manhattan that he was dispatching Treasury Under Secretary Paul Volcker to confer with foreign officials about first steps toward long-run monetary reform...
Irving chose the U.S. rather than Switzerland, flying to New York in midweek with Edith and their two children. After a private session in Hogan's office, Irving and his attorney, Martin Ackerman, were holding a late-night post-mortem in Ackerman's town house when TIME'S Frank McCulloch and John Goldman of the Los Angeles Times angled their way in. Until then, Irving had never varied in pitch or detail his account of the entire Hughes caper, as he traced and retraced his steps under intense questioning. This time he cracked...
...dealing took place in a meeting of the Group of Ten rich industrial nations, held at Rome's Palazzo Corsini, principally in a conference room decorated with Renaissance paintings of voluptuous nudes. At midweek the Finance Ministers and central bankers of the Ten shooed their aides out of the room and began talking numbers-just how many pounds, francs, marks, yen and lire a dollar should be able to buy. They did not fully agree, and they did not even begin to settle some basic controversies over tariff, farm, investment and defense policies (see box next page). But then...
...Soviets-and most other U.N. delegations, for that matter-the cause célèbre of the week was not China, but a cowardly sniper attack on a roomful of Russian children, apparently perpetrated by an adherent of the tinhorn terrorist Jewish Defense League. One evening at midweek, four rifle bullets crashed through an eleventh-floor bedroom window in the massive East Side Manhattan building that houses the large Soviet mission to the U.N. The shots were not heard by the 700 guests attending a lively reception on the lower floors, but they narrowly missed four embassy children...
...Early last week Chinese TV viewers were urged to tune in, please, for "an important news program" to be aired next day. But the promised telecast was postponed twice, and when the big announcement came at midweek, it only deepened the mystery: like the Tienanmen parade, the great state banquet, which is always hosted by Premier Chou En-lai on the eve of National Day, would also be scrapped. Instead, a perfunctory reception took place that was notable for the absence of any Chinese officials higher in rank than doddering old Vice Chairman Tung...