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Secret Speech. Despite the lack of supporting evidence, however, what made last week's rumor so intriguing to Kremlinologists was the serious economic plight of the Soviet Union. Once before, a similar situation presaged a change of leadership; that was in 1964, when Nikita Khrushchev was ousted mainly because of economic troubles. Ever since Brezhnev's secret speech to the Central Committee in mid-December, which stressed grave economic problems, there has been speculation that a change might take place in the top leadership some time this year...
Weak Governments. To a considerable degree, the outflow of lire also reflects Italy's political troubles. Last week President Giuseppe Saragat was seeking someone to try to form the country's 28th Cabinet since World War II, following the resignation of Premier Mariano Rumor. Progressively weaker governments have failed to grapple with the country's Byzantine state bureaucracy or to create an attractive climate for investors by, for instance, modernizing Italy's corporate laws. Investors avoid the Italian stock exchange, because manipulation by insiders is common and because disclosure of corporate revenues and profits is minimal...
...never-ending scramble for a rapid dollar, Wall Street speculators can be moved to frenzy by the vaguest rumor. Their response to every economic fad and fancy is almost a conditioned reflex. In the uranium boom that followed World War II, the magic words atomic and nuclear rang through brokers' offices with the authority of an inside tip. Just about any company that managed to get that magic into its name, or to pass the word that it had even a fringe involvement in the field, enjoyed a profitable play in the market. Since then, the speculative incantation...
...deux with three different ballerinas (Marnee Morris, Patricia McBride, Karin von Aroldingen). The mood of each dance is bittersweet romantic; yet they are wholly different in shape, tempo and feeling. And Balanchine's leaping, exactingly athletic solo for D'Amboise, in Liza, should forever dispel the snide rumor that he does not choreograph well for male dancers...
...obscurity that he good-naturedly describes himself as "the best-known unknown artist in America." Partly because of his geographic isolation from the world's art capitals, and partly because of his prophetic, much maligned theories about art, most of his career has been shadowed by misunderstanding, rumor, and critical hostility...