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...years raised uncounted millions to help such candidates as Harold E. Stassen, Joseph McCarthy, Robert A. Taft, and Barry Goldwater, and counted as one of his toughest jobs finding financial support last year for Oregon's Mark Hatfield, whose dovelike stand on Viet Nam soured many powerful G.O.P. moneymen; of a heart attack; in Miami...
...Tiber and the Thames. In 1966, every other movie made with American money was made abroad, and many of them (A Man for All Seasons, Blow-Up, Taming of the Shrew) were made by European directors and actors. Moreover, moviemaking at last fell out of the pockets of the moneymen in the front offices and into the hands of directors, writers and actors who suddenly found themselves with more freedom than they had ever known in the dear dead days that were happily beyond recall...
...French dealt from strength. After 30 years of controls, the government restored freedom to the franc and, to the surprise of moneymen everywhere, abolished controls over gold as well. In the U.S., the Federal Reserve Board reported a symptom of weakness: the nation's gold stock fell another $571 million last year, to $13.2 billion, the lowest level since...
...still paying $40 - in effect, yields rose from 4% to 5%. New York State had to pay 5.7% to float one tax-free issue; Baltimore, Louisville, Tulsa and Arlington, Va., canceled others. So queasy and depressed was the bond market that several corporations called off bond issues. Moneymen tossed in their sleep, worrying that if companies could get money no other way, they would begin wholesale withdrawals from banks. Says Chase Manhattan President David Rockefeller, 51: "This was certainly the most difficult period of my career...
...relief of accountants, schoolchildren, tourists and moneymen, all such variations will officially disappear with decimalization. They will be replaced by six coins: a halfpenny (worth 1.2 present pennies), a penny, a twopence piece, a 5-pence piece, a 10-pence piece and a 50-pence piece (worth, like the current 10-shilling note, half a pound). The pound will remain but the decimal system means that a price will be written as ?3.33. The sum can then be converted to dollars, simply by multiplying by 2.8, and the simplification may cut bookkeeping time by an estimated...