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Before the Secretary's departure, President Johnson made it clear that the U.S. takes a flexible position on monetary reform, is "not wedded in this enterprise to any particular procedure nor to any rigid timetable. The point to be kept in the forefront," added the President, "is that we are determined to move ahead-carefully and deliberately but without delay-because we are convinced that not to act when the time is ripe can be as unwise as to act too soon or too hastily." The big task of Fowler and his team is to convince Europe that...
...bored lover, Mastroianni is superb, now freezing almost imperceptibly over some affront to his fairly rigid erotic code, now quivering with gleeful, guilty passion as he catches a scent of danger. But his solid performance is wasted in fleshing out a hollow comic premise. In the end, Casanova collapses into palaver about murder and morals in a frantic courtroom scene-the customary last stop for a comedy that has lost its case...
...Rigid Regimen. Cobb stuck to his stiff regimen, completed the program last spring. Now, at 232, he has gone to work in an Augusta shoe-repair shop. He returns to the hospital for a checkup every other week, and has maintained his new figure. Says he: "There's a heap more will power connected with it than anything else...
...band of economists who put profits and efficiency above Marxist cant. Led by Evsei Liberman (TIME cover, Feb. 12), they persuaded the Kremlin six months ago to begin sizable tests of their Western-style theories in the Soviet economy. First some 400 light-industry plants were cut loose from rigid central planning, permitted to produce whatever they thought they could profitably sell. Then heavy industry in the Lvov area was allowed to try out the new system. When factory managers and economists from 30 cities met in Moscow recently to review the results, they voted unanimously "to end detailed planning...
...Cape Cod, he used to carry several of these littler books with him, jotting down impressions from time to time. As was his wont for most of his early diary-writing years (he kept a journal of some form or another until he left the Presidency), he followed no rigid pattern as to which books he wrote in. "He sometimes had three or four books going at once," according to Butterfield. "But he got a little formal about it when he went to Congress and became a public leader. Then he used storebought books. Before that, he used to make...