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...peace and maintain its own prosperity, the Western world in recent months has faced an unusual series of crises and alarums involving its monetary system. The pound has been attacked, the dollar's value questioned; gold is again and again the subject of debate. To narrow its payments gap, the U.S. has had to slash its foreign lending and investment-and has done it so successfully that many Europeans are now worrying about a money shortage. The latest development came last week when Britain, in an effort to correct its payments deficit, was forced to curb its domestic buying...
There seems to be a fairly sizeable gap between the top four clubs and the rest of the league. Minnesota, Boston, Los Angeles, and Detroit should occupy fifth through eighth places, but all four of these teams have the potential to finish higher, Washington and Kansas City clearly will occupy ninth and tenth places...
With the visit of the Moscow Art Theatre, critics have begun to talk of the "theatre gap" between Moscow and New York and to point out the artistic advantages of repertory. Such a company can devote more care to the preparation of a play and use its best talent for an ideal casting of every part. It can present a new play one week and a classic the next, and it need not rely on the big hit or the star for financial success. The Moscow Art this season, with a company of 140 actors, is running 33 productions...
Artists seem to enjoy making flags. Says Irving Kriesberg, 46, painter of limerick nonsense images: "It is like lithography-an image is reproduced economically, yet retains the force of originality." Pop Painter Marjorie Strider, 33, used unemotional sewing and deliberate placement of swatches to show a gap-jawed vampire starlet. Richard Lindner blended silk, satin, and leather to stitch together a sensual mix of sultriness and toughness in his portrait of a fiery sorcerer. Larry Rivers spent as much time reproducing his Dutch Masters on a banner as he did painting it. Cheerful, colorful, and casually breezy, they can make...
...Social Relations Colloqulum, earlier in the day, Dr. Soares said that the growth of political radicalism in Latin America reflects in a deeper sense "a gap between social development and economic development...