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...five courses in the subject: Jungian Astrology, Advanced Astrology, Out of the Aquarium and into the Aquarian, Occult Things and the New Age, and an Occult and Astrology Workshop. When the University of South Carolina recently offered Witchcraft as a non-credit voluntary course, an astounding 247 people signed up???though Professor Sidney Birnbaum expects many of them to drop out when they discover that he is going to teach only history...
...politics (partly, his friends say, because of campaign slurs about his interracial marriage) until 1960, when Republicans persuaded him to run for secretary of state. His opponent was an affable, able politician named Kevin White, and while the campaign was generally free of racial smears, one slogan that popped up???VOTE WHITE?carried an innuendo that was hard to ignore. Brooke lost narrowly...
Because foreign central banks have built up???and cashed in?tremendous stocks of dollars, Fort Knox's bullion hoard, which backs the value of the dollar, has plunged in the past seven years from $21 billion to $13.9 billion. Foreigners now hold $27.7 billion in dollars?almost twice the value of the U.S. gold supply?and they can demand gold for them at any time. Though it is highly unlikely that they would ever cash in enough to break Fort Knox or force the U.S. to devalue the dollar, the mere fact that they have the power...
Even when the big rise in stocks cut their yields?and the tight money policy started interest rates up???the bond market did not recover; it was swamped as corporation after corporation, cut off from long-term loans by tight money, floated bonds to pay for their enormous expansion. In 1956 a record 1,843 new bond issues worth $12.3 billion were floated. Since most of the new issues were forced to offer higher interest rates to attract investors, prices of older, less profitable bonds dropped. Thus the average price of all listed domestic bonds on the New York Stock...
...believe the post office is at fault, for all of the other magazines always show up??? some of them for much longer than the subscription period...