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SWITZERLAND may become the first nation to return to a partial gold standard. With more gold than is needed to back their currency 100%, the prosperous Swiss will experiment by minting gold francs in 25 fr. ($5.83) and 50 fr. ($11.66) denominations, will start off by issuing 50 to 100 million francs worth of gold coins...
...fact, the loyalty certificate's only virtue is in its partial definition of "mental reservation" as membership, past or present, in any organization featured on the Attorney General's list of subversives. But no conscious subversive, planted in a university to rise in the army through the ROTC program, will be stymied by the certificate. Nor is the perfunctory loyalty check on those who complete the form, mostly conducted in the files of the Defense Department, likely to reveal any damaging evidence about such a person's political associations. If the purpose of the certificate is to uncover memberships that...
...Partial planting and complete pruning will take place this fall, Roberts continued...
Wearing a grey toupee and a brace on his back, Taylor, with his 19-year-old son, Arod, went from house to house in a state where houses are far apart. He explained his brace to rapt audiences. Six years of sitting in a Senate seat had caused partial collapse of his backbone. Said Glen: "I gave my all for you people, sitting there in Washington. But now I've got a wonderful brace. And in the Senate the man who works the hardest is the one who does the most sitting. With this brace, I can outsit them...
...least 100 Britons are threatened with partial blindness as a result of watching the solar eclipse on June 30, reported three hospitals in Scotland. Some victims may have suffered permanent damage to the macula (the point of clearest vision at the retina's center), in the future would see well only out of the corner of the eye. Two-thirds of the reported cases were in eastern Scotland, where skies were clearest. Doctors in the U.S., where the eclipse could be seen only during early-morning hours, have so far reported only three cases of eye damage, none...