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...industrial users, the price was freed to find its own level in the marketplace. To make the system work, the central banks agreed to buy no newly mined metal. They also agreed to sell no gold whatever to any country that might then succumb to the profitable temptation to unload official gold reserves in the free market, where the price has hovered around...
...Bates has been pleading with his constituents to "unload your guns"-literally. Warren residents, predominantly of Eastern European and Italian descent, have been apprehensive ever since last year's uprising in Detroit. Yet Warren has had a decreasing crime rate, and Bates observes: "We have no problems with hippies, yippies or zippies." George Wallace draws strong support in Warren. Among Negroes in the surrounding area, the word is out that to get a flat tire or an empty fuel tank in Warren or neighboring Dearborn is to run a serious risk of physical assault. In upper-income Grosse Pointe...
...some 38,000 New Yorkers, also includes offices, banks, a post office, theater, library and a 100-store shopping center. When built by Metropolitan between 1938 and 1942, Parkchester cost $67 million. Even though it yielded $14.9 million in rents last year, Metropolitan has for some time yearned to unload it. New York City rent control has kept the top rent on a three-bedroom apartment to a bar gain $165 a month, even while taxes and operating costs have soared...
...commission ordered public hearings into charges that Merrill Lynch illegally fed corporate secrets to 15 of its largest customers-even while withholding the same information from thousands of little investors. The tipoffs, according to the SEC staff, led the 15 big outfits to unload shares of Douglas Aircraft Co. stock just before it plunged in value during June 1966. At the same time, said the SEC, Merrill Lynch kept on buying Douglas stock for less favored customers without telling them it had inside knowledge that Douglas' earnings were falling sharply...
...plight of the Biafran people is a topic on which McGuire spends relatively little time, because he feels the subject has been adequately covered by American reporters, and also because the airlift crews seldom stay in Biafra longer than four hours--the time it takes to unload 30 tons of baby food, or Mausers, or whatever from the Constellations. He does, however, venture to add a few vignettes to the picture of the people. Pilots on flights into Biafra carry canned hams and salt to give to the unloaders as an incentive for faster work. On one of his flights...