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...change its rules on gold sales. The Union wanted permission to sell half its annual output, which is the largest in the world, for whatever it could get. Since gold is bringing $40 an ounce in some free world markets, South Africa, in effect, wanted the Fund to abandon the official gold price of $35 an ounce...
...Lilly's long life as a hunter he probably killed close to 1,000 bears and mountain lions. He might have killed more but for one Sabbatarian self-limitation: he would abandon even the freshest trail on Saturday evening and refuse to pick it up again until Monday morning. Says Author Dobie: Ben Lilly "was in the tradition of the Mountain Men and was the very last man in that tradition. There can never be another...
...occasion is merely a matter of good taste; nevertheless it is not a matter which can be entirely ignored. There is a certain amount of truth to the old maxim of "when in Rome, do as the Romans do," although this should not mean that we should abandon all of our clothing tastes entirely, and conform...
...East Germany the struggle between Communist officials and church leaders suddenly grew sharper and more menacing. For a few days last week it looked as if the Protestant churches might abandon their carefully maintained neutrality and throw in their lot with the West...
Boston's classical-music station WBMS this week decided to abandon Brahms for bop. After three years' experience, disillusioned Vice President George Lasker concluded that "all of the classical-music enthusiasts in Boston would just about fill the Boston Garden [capacity...