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...thirds of the world's gold is now held as monetary reserves, about $20 billion being legally tied down as partial backing for paper currencies; the remaining one-third is absorbed by industrial arts and private ownership. The U.S., with 446 million oz. of monetary gold, has by far the largest holdings. Next: West Germany (110 million oz.), France (91 million), Switzerland (81 million), Britain (71 million). As for Russia, how much gold the country holds has become such an international mystery that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency sniffed around, recently concluded that Russian monetary reserves must run about...
...school (Eastern prep division) which he has cast on other U.S. institutions-marriage and the law (By Love Possessed), the military establishment (Guard of Honor), the clergy (Men and Brethren), and medicine (The Last Adam). In the past, the animator has been an individual who, by partial dissent, has lifted the various strands of a society into a tension which made them as visible as struts in a Dymaxion dome...
Many kidney patients drag on for years with a partial but permanent loss of filtration efficiency, punctuated by occasional flare-ups of more severe failure. At such times, they need a special diet, with a little food several times a day, and not the hospital's usual three, widely spaced meals, said Dr. Becker. Ironically some of these patients are better off if they are not put to bed, but are kept on their feet...
...their geographical proximity, there is only a partial pattern in the customs, the people, the cultures of Scandinavia...
...largely left to the colored memoirs of the ladies of his life. Von Salis, formerly professor of history at the Swiss Institute of Technology, was a young man when he knew Rilke during the last seven years of the poet's self-exile in Switzerland, and his partial biography has been a primary source of countless articles and other writings on Rilke since it was first published in 1936. It has now appeared for the first time in English, translated by Norah Kelsall Cruickshank, an English poet...