Word: pound
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...American warplanes continued to pound its oil installations last week, North Viet Nam responded with a mixture of fear, rage and frantic determination. Hanoi decided to evacuate all of the capital city's residents "nonessential to fighting and production," and began dispersing fuel dumps into the middle of villages-where, in order to hit them, the U.S. would also have to hit civilians...
Only three weeks ago, the friendly central banks of eleven countries propped up the faltering pound with $1 billion of aid (TIME, June 24). Last week sterling suffered another sinking spell. At one point it dropped to an exchange rate of $2.7869, its lowest level in 21 months, forcing the Bank of England to dig into the country's slim reserves to shore up the currency...
...ranged from cheers to tears. The British Commonwealth's two Harolds-Britain's Prime Minister Wilson and Australia's Prime Minister Holt-found themselves at opposite ends of the spectrum. Wilson, harried by a flatulent left wing that even deplores Washington's support of the pound sterling, declared that "we must dissociate ourselves from the bombings" but stoutly reiterated his fundamental support for U.S. war aims...
...chocolate-covered grasshoppers to liven up his traditional light evening meal. "Today," says Alfred Peters of Michelsen's, which claims to be the largest importer of caviar in West Germany, "it's nothing for the lower classes to come in here and purchase caviar [at $50 a pound]. They are the new gourmets...
...entire $3,000 repast came from a Munich delicatessen, but hardly the kind where Americans pick up a six-pack or a pound of pastrami after the A & P has closed. Munich's 250-year-old Alois Dallmayr's is a Delikatessen in the original German sense of the word. Its sales of delicacies zu essen are soaring, as are those of practically every other fancy-food store in West Germany, on the strength of the latest craze to sweep the country: the Edelfresswelle, or exotic-food-devouring wave...