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...balance would become a permanent increase in each country's liquid assets. SDKs would exist only on the books of the IMF and its member nations. Only governments would be eligible to use them-and only to settle debts (not, for example, to buy goods or to raid another country's stock of gold). Ordinary tourists and businessmen would still settle their bills in the familiar national currencies...
...which might have made a vert nice fifteen or twenty minute flick, but an hour and a half is ridiculous. Other things that are bad about the movie are the music (which comes in with the subtlety of a napalm raid), the dialogue (such conversations as "Winter is so long." "And summer is so short." "That is because in the summer we are so busy preparing for the winter."), and the acting, which, by any standards, is quite poor...
...strange-looking aircraft will wheel over Takhli Air Force Base in Thailand early this week, cock their delta-shaped wings forward like alighting eagles, then touch down with needle-nosed insouciance among the warplanes that almost daily raid North Viet Nam. They are the first combat-bound models of the controversial F-111 swing-wing fighter-bomber (originally, the TFX), contracted for six years ago under Robert McNamara to serve both the Air Force and the Navy. Takhli's new planes will be F-111 As, the Air Force model, which will be tested in bombing runs over North...
...Major General Sir Robert Laycock, 60, debonair, dashing leader of England's World War II commandos; of a heart attack; in Wiseton, England. The storybook image of a daring British commando, the tall, blue-eyed Laycock led his raiders through Crete, Syria, Sicily and Salerno, executed his boldest raid in 1941, when he landed on the Libyan coast, tried to kidnap Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, lost 48 of his 50-man party, and escaped across the desert, living for six weeks on little else but berries and rain water...
...held an improbable rendezvous with the bizarre. It has given the world Thorsten Veblen and the Ringling brothers, Jack Lemmon and Joe McCarthy, Billy Mitchell and Frank Lloyd Wright, Edna Ferber and Harry Houdini. The state's contributions to American education include the first kindergarten and the first panty raid. It is the birthplace of the Gideon Society and the Republican Party...