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...specific artistry of an Edward Tarr--considered by many the finest baroque trumpeter today--and the combination should be superb. But last Wednesday's recital at Memorial Church was a disappointment. Though the playing was excellent, the program was second-rate: and no amount of techinical accomplishment can redeem medicore music...
...unable to attract wide-scale support, and he distrusts Muskie's political judgment. Referring to Muskie's trip to South Vietnam in 1967, during which the Senator said that the Thieu victory of that year was a free election. Peretz says: "I'm like the Old Baptists: people can redeem themselves with secular versions of penance. But this is pretty late. I would be very wary of the type of judgments Muskie would make...
...delegates cannot merely patch up the Bretton Woods system of fixed prices for every currency, based on a fixed relationship between the dollar and gold. President Nixon shattered that illusion on Aug. 15, when he announced that the U.S. would stop selling gold to redeem foreign-held dollars. The "Nixon Shock" has already moved moneymen into discussions that would have sounded like sheer fantasy a few months ago. American officials who once proclaimed the majesty of the dollar now cheer declines in its price on newly freed money markets, because they hold the potential for helping the U.S. balance...
Officials of the major Western financial powers, plus Japan, prepared to meet next week in London to start considering new international monetary arrangements now that President Nixon has unilaterally upset the longstanding consensus by refusing to redeem dollars for gold. The participating nations make up the main trading partners of the International Monetary Fund, which meets in full session in Washington beginning Sept. 27. Participants will probably get some hint of an answer to the question that intrigues them most: How long will the "temporary" 10% U.S. import surtax remain in effect? Nathaniel Samuels, U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of State...
...manager. He ruins one of her rendezvous in the bathhouse cabin by ringing the fire alarm. Susan only teases him more. Mike finally manages to provoke her so severely that she slaps him across the mouth, loosening the diamond of her engagement ring. Seeing a chance to redeem himself, Mike works out an incredibly elaborate scheme for recovering the jewel...