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LYNDON B. JOHNSON AND THE WORLD, by Philip L. Geyelin. A perceptive, sometimes tartly irreverent account of how L.B.J. has fared in foreign affairs, by the Wall Street Journal's diplomatic correspondent...
...much escaped the memento seekers when Manhattan's old Metropolitan Opera House closed down last April. Opera buffs pried off seat numbers, and ripped down damask wall coverings. Not to be outdone, RCA Victor carted away (after paying $10,000) the gold brocade curtain and announced that it would cut the drapery into 45,000 patches and include one in each copy of a souvenir-record album called Opening Nights at the Metropolitan. Of course, the curtain did shrink some in the cleaning, but there was enough to go around as Soprano Leontyne Price scissored off the first snippet...
...exchange's action came as a be lated response to longtime criticism of established indexes, notably the famed Dow-Jones, produced by the publishers of the Wall Street Journal. Things got to the point where no less a tape watcher than Lyndon Johnson - disturbed because the Dow apparently made the market decline in the spring of 1965 seem worse than it was - urged that the stock exchange come up with a new way to measure the market...
Gathering for their regular Thursday morning meeting, directors of the Bank of England last week made a decision that has been expected on Threadneedle Street as well as Wall Street. Faced with a continuing economic crisis and with a shaky pound sterling that slipped at one point to its lowest value in 20 months, the directors raised the bank rate-the interest that other banks must pay to borrow from Britain's central bank. The rate was increased from 6% to 7%, a level it last reached during the sterling crisis of November 1964. Thus Britain became the sixth...
...absorbing Washington game that Philip Geyelin calls "Lyndonology"-the study of the President-is usually more of a cutting-down than a building-up pastime. Geyelin, the diplomatic correspondent of the Wall Street Journal, adds some choice cuts. In this book, the first comprehensive study of Lyndon Johnson's performance in foreign policy, Geyelin reports that the President sent the Marines to Santo Domingo with the cry that it was "just like the Alamo." And he records some presidential double-edged scorn: Handing the Dominican government back to Juan Bosch, said Johnson, "would be like turning it over...