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Drink a round to the Kruggerrand, Even, God help us, to Ayn Rand...
...addition, a review of Christopher Rand's book, Making Democracy Safe for Oil, spoke of U.S. collaboration with the oil cartel. In 1970, the review said, the United States could have stopped the cartel on its way to power, and collaboration went on through the oil embargo of 1973, "which received encouragement from the State Department...
...second period, coach Scalise substituted freely but his team continued to score. With more than 17 minutes left in the game, Marco Williams set up Steve Smith for Harvard's third goal. As they had in the first half, fullbacks Bill For-bush, Dave Rand and Ralph Earle, along with sweeper Antonio Ardila, moved the ball up to the offense and shut off the few scoring rushes that Amherst could muster...
...subchieftainess of the Basotho Qua-Qua homeland described her territory as a "dumping ground" for the unemployed, saying, "What is worrying me is that I have registered 2,048 families with no clinic and toilet facilities. Their children are without a school." The government spends an average of 483 rand (one rand is about $1.47) on the education of a white child, and about 28 rand on the education of an African. More than 50 per cent of African children complete their fourth year of school...
...soil; as a gesture of good will, 35 of his paintings, screens and objets d'art have been sent to precede him. The show opened last week at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and will move next month to the Japan House Gallery in Manhattan, whose enterprising director, Rand Castile, worked more than a year negotiating this coup...