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Margaret Atwood will lecture Friday, April 7 in Science Center B. Also Friday, Leo Mildenberg, a reknowned numismatist from Zurich will talk about "Master Coin Forgeries" at the Fogg...
...price of gold, that classic refuge of investors who lack confidence in the dollar, soared nearly $4 per oz. in a single day, one of the largest jumps in postwar history. In London and Zurich, gold hit $190 per oz., just below the alltime high achieved in December 1974. At week's end, though, it sank back to around...
...define to be a system. As a viable "movement," it lasted from the end of the first World War to the end of the second-a span of nearly three decades. Like its ancestor Dada, surrealism was brought to term by young refugees in the cafes of neutral Zurich during World War I, in a clamor of theatrical high jinks, concrete-poetry recitals, chance-based collages and mock rituals. Surrealism became a common ground for bourgeois intellectuals agonized by the futility of their expected social roles. But it smacks of artificiality to confine either Dada or surrealism too closely...
...then on Friday, selling pressure began all over again. By day's end, the dollar had dropped back to 2.14 marks in Frankfurt, and to 2.01 Swiss francs in Zurich. One possible reason: speculators noticed that the Washington announcement a) did not promise any particular level of intervention, and b) hinted that the U.S. will not attempt to keep the dollar above any specified floor price-but will merely try to "reestablish order" on the exchanges. That would seem to leave room for a continued, though gradual, decline...
...Foreign investment in the U.S. Cheaper dollars have led European investors, particularly West Germans, to buy American properties at bargain rates. Says Zurich Real Estate Broker Richard Ufer: "Ten years ago every German millionaire wanted to own a jet. Now the status symbol is a farm in America." But as the dollar's value sinks, some foreign investors are having second thoughts; profits on their U.S. investments are earned in dollars that are worth a declining number of marks and Swiss francs. The possibility is growing that foreign investors will pull much of their capital...