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...ever-but he is recognized as a real master in the art of political survival. On the day that Lindsay announced his candidacy, Wagner found himself in the position of announcing a record city budget of $3.87 billion, involving $255 million of what Wagner lamely described as "borrow now, repay later" financing. That was embarrassing, but Wagner has come back strong from much worse embarrassments. No one would claim that Wagner has been a great mayor, but New York has had a lot worse ones, and Wagner at least has a reputation for honesty, a commodity not always in surplus...
...took place in Paris, where top monetary men from 21 nations met as Working Party III to make one of the crucial monetary decisions of the decade: whether to advance a $1.4 billion loan to Britain to enable it to prop up the pound. Britain needed the money to repay the $750 million that it has already used out of the $3 billion lent it by central banks last November, when the pound was being attacked-and to provide a cushion that would make unnecessary any further drawing...
...hard-core following of no more than 100-but he was more or less admired by thousands who, deep in their hearts, were pleased by his denunciations of the white devil. "He will be avenged," said his half sister Mrs. Ella Mae Collins. "We are going to repay them for what they did to Malcolm," said Leon 4X Ameer, another turncoat Black Muslim who had a score of his own to set tle-a Christmas beating in Boston by karate-skilled bullyboys of the Fruit of Islam, the Black Muslim enforcement "elite." Added Leon 4X: "I don't know...
...station is being purchased by a group of sophomore radio enthusiasts, with the help of a $200 loan from the House Committee, according to Joseph Blanchard '67, a spokesman for the group. The rest of the money will be put up by interested students, and an attempt to repay the loan by soliciting throughout Winthrop House will be made. "We would really like to make this a house function, rather than something for a select few," Blanchard said...
...billion emergency credit that it raised last November from the U.S. and other major countries to save the pound then. The credit was due to expire this month, but Britain, having already used up about $1 billion of it, last week won an extension. To meet its obligation to repay, London is negotiating with the International Monetary Fund for a long-term loan...