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...world money crisis has often been compared to high-stakes poker -a game in which Richard Nixon is coolly expert. According to one theory, he and Treasury Secretary John Connally have been waiting for other nations to play their cards before showing the U.S.'s hand. Under pressure at home and from abroad, they decided last week that the psychological moment had finally arrived. As a result, serious bargaining began over a sweeping new set of values for the dollar and other currencies...
...herself to grand opera, she signed with the Charles Wagner Opera Co., a provincial touring unit. Opera it was; grand it definitely was not. Beverly soon was riding up to 300 miles between dates in a rickety bus, acquiring stiff joints, bags under the eyes?and a pot of poker winnings. "I once sang 63 consecutive Micaelas in one-night stands of Carmen," she recalls. "I will never sing Micaela again, for anyone, anywhere...
...compulsion to settle." With those cool words, John Connally continued to play his risky poker hand in the high-stakes game of international money. Publicly, at least, the Secretary of the Treasury refused to soften the Nixon Administration's economic moves, which have upset and unsettled the trading world. Foreigners were increasingly angered by what they perceived to be brutally nationalistic U.S. policies-the 10% surtax on most imports, the proposed "buy American" investment credit at home, and the demand that other nations revalue their currencies upward against the dollar. A Canadian diplomat complained in Ottawa: "America seems...
...peskiest poker of Administration balloons has been Harold Goldstein, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' assistant commissioner in charge of analyzing the most politically potent figure of all, the jobless rate. Last January he rightly called the .2% drop in unemployment "marginally significant." Labor Secretary James Hodgson, however, publicly declared that the drop had "great significance.'' In March, when Hodgson termed a slight decrease in unemployment "heartening," Goldstein called it "a mixed picture." Apprised of Hodgson's view, Goldstein replied: "I am not here to support or not support the Secretary's statement. I am here...
...stroke; in North Hollywood. Though he claimed not to have had a cold since 1918 and said that sneezing was only a small part of his repertoire, Gilbert kerchooed his way to stage and screen success in the 1930s and '40s. His 300 films included The Outcasts of Poker Flat and Chaplin's classic Hitler spoof, The Great Dictator...