Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...graduates when considering applicants of otherwise equal qualifications. They find that the man with officer training an active military service generally is more mature, has had more leadership and management experience and is more capable of accepting responsibility than men hired directly out of college. Nationwide, less than five per cent of eligible college students take Army ROTC. (At Harvard the number who take ROTC is less than one-half of one per cent of has college enrollment.) Yet out of this five per cent comes 10 per cent of our Congressmen, 15 per cent or our ambassadors, 24 per...
...have been reinforced by signs of strain in the world's monetary system. Eight hours after Treasury Secretary David Kennedy was sworn in last week, he talked down one source of uneasiness. In a statement approved by President Nixon, he ruled out any change in the official $35-per-oz. price of gold. "We see no need or reason for such action," he said...
...weeks ago, the free-market price in London and Zurich climbed to $42.75 per oz. That was the highest in the ten months since a buying panic forced central bankers to adopt a two-price system and stop supporting the price of privately traded gold at $35. After Kennedy's declaration last week, the free-market price retreated...
...reserves of monetary gold. South Africa is sitting on a horde of $1.25 billion in gold, waiting for a crisis that would lift its price. But the South Africans seem willing to make a deal. They would probably sell half of their gold to the official market at $35 per oz., if they could also get permission to sell the other half at a higher price on the free market. At the same time, the world's monetary authorities would put a floor under the gold price by agreeing to buy South Africa's bullion if and when...
...caused by iodine deficiency. The condition was thought to have been eliminated during the Depression by persuading people to use iodized salt in their food. Now it has become endemic again, said Schaefer, affecting 5% of those studied-even though enough iodine to prevent goiter costs less than ½ per person per year...