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Callaghan, 55, was bound to be one of the biggest losers from the devaluation. For three years he has had the melancholy task of explaining Harold Wilson's economic policies and defending the tottering pound. When Wilson finally devalued, Callaghan sat down on the same day to pen his resignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Man for All Sacrifices | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...pen down, it would be gone when I turned my back. The stealing's gone up incredibly this year," a stationery saleswoman said...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: Eighteen Undergraduates Apprehended For Coop Shoplifting Since September | 12/6/1967 | See Source »

...major changes--reorganization of the comptroller's offices and the introduction of interim budget reports--will bring the college's financial procedures "from the quill-pen to the IBM," Britten said...

Author: By Kerry Gruson, | Title: Radcliffe Revamps Budgetary Methods For More Efficiency | 11/20/1967 | See Source »

Later, when he had forsaken evangelism for a career as an artist, Van Gogh used the pen and pencil as a way of storing up details or of working out the organization of scenes he wanted to do in oils. In the last ten years of his life, he produced 800 oils and an even larger number of preliminary drawings and watercolors. The process of distilling the essence of dozens of sketches into one painting "was something like an electric discharge," says Vincent W. Van Gogh, his nephew and chairman of the foundation from whose collection the current display...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Electricity in Water | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

...touches one button at her throat, and rigor mortis Slithers into his pockets, making everything there--keys, pen and secret love--stand...

Author: By Robert B. Shaw, | Title: James Dickey | 11/9/1967 | See Source »

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