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...stamp collecting, orchid culture, private railroad cars, teen-age girls, luxurious yachts and diamond-studded chamber pots. Green sometimes traveled with a battered Gladstone valise stuffed with $10,000 bills. Once when he was visiting Dallas, the president of the Security National Bank appealed to Green to help him stanch a run on the bank. Green counted 20 ten-grand notes out of his wallet and then sent a bellboy to his hotel suite to fetch his valise, which was on the bed. From that, he produced 30 additional $10,000 bills, then sent the still-bulging satchel back...
...collective reserve unit, dubbed Cru. Washington felt that De Gaulle's maneuver was dictated by the belief-or even the hope-that the dollar drain caused by the Viet Nam war, now between $400 million and $500 million a year, will make it impossible for the U.S. to stanch its payments deficit this year...
...again, De Gaulle drew cheers by denouncing the Yalta agreements of 1945, which, as he put it, had created "the two hegemonies [Russia and the U.S.] which menace international peace." Again and again, he promised local mayors aid from Paris, usually in the form of light industries that would stanch the outflow of young people to the cities. In some villages, De Gaulle's rewards came in more substantial form than mere cheering: countrymen presented him with everything from a case of oysters to a brace of ducks...
...some kind of nut. It seems that, thanks to "the college boys in striped pants and the eggheads in Washington, our government has become a joke all the way down into Mau-Mau territory"; the West is sure to "lose everything"-unless Tiger and his extragovernmental CIA can stanch a critical security leak at the U.N. The "commy bastards," it turns out, have penetrated the British delegation, and so, in his inexorable way, does Tiger. The last Red head is blown off and "splashed up against the wall" expeditiously, and a grateful President can take his finger...
...freed himself from more than two decades of dedication to his country's culture. Just back from Germany, this week he will conduct a concert in Portland, Ore., and is slated for another in Chicago. But his lively performances on the podium do not stanch his virtually uninterrupted flow of symphonies, concertos, ballets, string quartets, songs and toccatas. While New York reconsiders the merits of his Symphony No. 6, Chávez is polishing off a new percussion piece and is halfway through Symphony No. 7. "When you solve one problem," he says, "go on to the next. That...