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...currency in general, and touched off a worldwide wave of speculation in gold. The resulting gold scarcity has left the free world's official monetary reserves-for the most part bullion and dollars-annoyingly tight. Last week the International Monetary Fund reported that worldwide reserves increased by a scant $460 million during the first nine months...
...Compared to a scant 17% in 1940. By contrast, Britain sends only 9% of its young to university, and France, for all De Gaulle's grandeur, not more than...
...scant ten seconds later, Don Grimble carried goalward and passed across the crease to Murphy, who stuffed the puck for a 5-2 lead...
HANDEL THE MESSIAH (3 LPs). Handel himself scored several versions of his oratorio, and they bear scant resemblance to the later interpretations inflated by choruses of thousands. Today's revived interest in baroque music has resulted in two new albums that aim at authenticity, each using a chorus of 40 or fewer and an orchestra of similar size. The soloists in both albums strive -with mixed success -to ornament their melodies in 18th century style. Robert Shaw (RCA Victor), conducting his own chorale and orchestra, shows how dramatic the scaled-down work can be; his version, with its furiously...
With a Cabinet full of fresh faces, Sato hopes to restore confidence in the Liberal Democratic government-a confidence that has fallen from a high of 47% popular support in 1964 to a scant 25% according to last week's Asahi Shimbun poll. Though the Liberal Democrats' opponents have been fragmented for a decade, Sato wants to take no chances that his troubles might unite them before the elections...