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Clearly, the world needs a new reserve asset. Just as clearly, it needs to get rid of Charles de Gaulle. Fortunately, to pose that two-fold problem is to solve it. I propose that the world abandon gold, establish a new monetary unit, and use Charles de Gaulle himself as the reserve asset. Instead of the gold outflow, we would have the De Gaulle outflow. And, since De Gaulle would be allowed to say whatever he pleased, wherever he were stationed, it is doubtful that many countries would cash in their extra currency...
...explained New Jersey Republican Clifford Case, who supported the amendment. "He takes a little longer. He does it with oleaginous applications of one sort or another." On the eve of the vote, Dirksen felt certain that his applications had been effective. "I brought three lost sheep back into the fold," he confided, "and I'll get another one tomorrow morning...
...every prudent Italian knows, it is perfectly legal and frequently necessary to fold the middle fingers back under the thumb and jab the first and little fingers down at the ground. Such "horns" ward off evil spirits. But if the fingers point upward? Ah, the corna instantly sneers that the addressee is a cuckold. The gesture is so unbearable that in Verona recently a truck driver was fined $50 and court costs for understandably lofting the corna at a madly beeping motorist...
...Paris at the age of 17 to dance with the Tiller Girls at the Folies-Bergére. She met Anatole at the restaurant, and they were married when she was 20. The Moreau family, descended from a long line of farmers, never quite welcomed her into the fold. Jeanne was born in Paris in 1928, and a few years later the family moved south to Vichy, spending vacations at the ancestral village of Mazirat, a town of 30 houses in a valley in the Allier. "It was wonderful there," Jeanne says. "Every tombstone in the cemetery...
...body of knowledge. The first answer doesn't lead logically to a doubled science requirement; surely a student can learn the "scientific method" from a decent one-year Nat Sci course. The second answer doesn't lead to a doubled requirement either, but to one increased a hundred-fold, for there will never be agreement about which science everyone needs more of. Suppose the Faculty requires each student to take two years of biology. Will he then understand the space program? If more science means more scientific knowledge, four terms--indeed 16 terms--of science are clearly not "enough...