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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough to win at eight ball against Cleveland's Democratic Mayor Carl B. Stokes, 40, who had once been billiards champion of the University of Minnesota. The epic confrontation occurred during a meeting in Columbus, when Rhodes suggested that he and Stokes might get better acquainted at the pool table in the gubernatorial mansion. "I want to play him again," said Stokes when it was all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 8, 1967 | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

Junior Bob Hughes started the romp with a victory in the 1000-yard freestyle event. His time of 1:38.7 established a pool record for the newly created event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash, Swimming Teams Romp | 12/4/1967 | See Source »

Scarcely a day goes by at his house without Gernreich's taking a ritual sun-bath and a swim in the nude in his private pool, where he also tests out new swimsuit fabrics. As a former dancer and an outdoors-loving Californian, he believes wholeheartedly in the natural body. He has carried his beliefs into practice. Today, Editor of French Vogue Françoise de Langlade de La Renta claims: "No one has freed the body like Rudi Gernreich, and I doubt that anyone so overflows with ideas." One of his most liberating designs was a simple knit tank suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Up, Up & Away | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

Firm Price. The dollar is the only currency of a major world power that has escaped formal devaluation since the end of World War II. The U.S. supplies more than half of the gold in the London pool which was set up in 1961 to help stabilize the price of the metal within a few cents of its official U.S. price: $35 per oz. For 33 years that fixed price has been the cornerstone of the free world's international monetary arrangements. The U.S. is pledged to swap gold for dollars, at that price, to any foreign government that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Weathering the Fallout | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...fallout, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler pronounced himself "very encouraged" over the dollar's performance against the resulting speculative pressure in foreign exchange markets. The biggest effect-accompanied by some temporary alarums-came in the gold market. Speculators poured buy orders into the eight-nation London gold pool. In a few hours, they snapped up an estimated $23 million worth of the metal. On Thanksgiving, sales not only shot up to a record $112 million in London, but the gold rush also spread to Paris and Zurich. The pressure, mainly from Europe and the Middle East, continued to mount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Weathering the Fallout | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

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