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...national silver hoard declined by 23% last year, and a conspicuous symptom that the trouble is continuing is the nagging shortage of U.S. coins. Last week the U.S. Treasury told a congressional subcommittee, which is brooding over ways to ease the shortage, that the Government may well have to alter the 90% silver content of dimes, quarters and halves. This has led powerful business groups into the greatest debate over silver since William Jennings Bryan cried out for the silver interests in his 1896 "Cross of Gold" peroration...
...stomach but starve the spirit. Paradoxically, Red Desert fails as drama because Antonioni, with scrupulous care, makes places and things so much more interesting than his people that an audience cannot always tell the Christians from the lions. The film nonetheless fails magnificently, with a kaleidoscopic splash sure to alter the complexion of art cinema, and in some measure to redefine...
Between 100 and 200 underpass opponents are expected to appear at a State House hearing today to back three bills that would alter this legislation by either subjecting the underpasses' construction to new controls or revoking the authorization all together...
...doctor said that while benzedrine and dexedrine do prevent sleepiness, they also alter judgment, making them especially dangerous during exam period...
Says Pragmatist Bliss: "If the Democratic Party is big enough for Harry Byrd and Hubert Humphrey, then the Republican Party is big enough for Jack Javits and Barry Goldwater." Which does not alter the fact that, for all of Bliss's avoidance of ideology, the party will need ideas-and obviously they will have to come from the Javits forces rather than the Goldwater side. In fact, New York's Senator Javits last week suggested that the National Committee "set in motion the machinery to call a national conclave to replace" the current Republican platform, because "we will...