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...backing provision would be a logical step in the further improvement of our international monetary framework." Alexander's proposal came when the flight of gold from the U.S., caused by a worsening balance of U.S. payments, was approaching a crisis. The Treasury Department announced last week that the oss of gold in November was the biggest he U.S. has ever sustained, reached nearly $500 million for the month to raise the years loss to more than $1.5 billion, almost all of it in 1960's second half So serious was the situation that Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson...
Died. Rudolph Charles von Ripper, 55, Austrian-born artist best known for his savage, Goyaesque, anti-Nazi etchings of the 1930s. and courageous soldier of fortune who was wounded many times while serving in the French Foreign Legion, Spanish Loyalist air force. U.S. Army and the OSS; of a heart attack; in Pol-lensa, Majorca...
...tone poems and suites, 62 conductors, 61 instrumentalists, 72 singers, ten operatic and orchestral groups, and 161 musical terms. From this generous supply every player must, of course, select his own repertory of names. A good random beginner's list might include Hector Berlioz ("EC-tor BEAR-li-oss"), Emil Waldteufel ("VAAL-toy-ful"), Kurt Weill's Die Dreigrosch-enoper ("Dee Dry-GROSH-en-oper"), Puccini's Gianni Schicchi ("Johnny SKEE-ky"), Prokofiev's ballet, Chout ("Shoo!"), Conductor Eugen Jochum ("OY-gen YOK-hum"), Pianist Jorge Bo-let ("HOAR-hay Bo-LETT"). Advanced players will discover certain unaccountable omissions: where...
...supplied another eight. Caught up in the cultural invasion, armchair wayfarers could head out with Wagon Train or Highway Patrol. With tea they got Annie Oakley, Mickey Mouse, Popeye; with cocktails it was Lucille Ball in Lucy or Ann (Private Secretary) Sothern; with the bedtime mild-and-bitter came OSS, or Lee Marvin's M Squad. On commercial channels in the south, Midlands, and north, screens flashed with Wild Bill Hickok, Lassie. Joe Friday, Martin Kane or Flash Gordon...
...Union, Glueck spends more time as archaeologist than as minister, has roamed the Holy Land for 30 years. During World War II he was director of the American School of Oriental Research at Jerusalem -a "perfect cover," says Glueck, for his real job: boss of the cloak-and-dagger OSS in Transjordan. After the war, he set out to explore the Negev, each year since 1950 has gone deep into the wasteland...