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...Atlantic of a flight from the dollar. Behind these wild exaggerations was some sober fact. In the past three weeks U.S. Treasury gold stocks have declined $176 million, a greater gold outgo than occurred in the entire first quarter. Coming after a drop of $2.3 billion in 1958-the sharpest one-year decline in history-the renewed flow of U.S. gold to foreign nations brought Treasury gold holdings to $20,255,000,000, the lowest level in 13 years...
Blaming Wages. From Raymond Saulnier, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, came the sharpest opposition to the bill-he called it "untimely and unnecessary"-as well as backing for Blough's view. In the strongest terms yet used by an Administration economist, Saulnier laid the blame for inflation not on corporations but on "increases in money wages that outstrip improvements in productivity. I believe we have tended of late to depart from the historical relation between wage increases and productivity improvements. And if these cost increases cannot be passed on to the consumer in higher...
Fantasy & Fog. As for science, Barzun insists that scientists cannot communicate with each other-the increasing "fantasy" of their symbolic language prohibits communication. But his sharpest nips at contemporary American are in his attack on togetherness. Barzun charges America with "hostility to intellect," of personality "coddling." His particular enemy is the "adjustment curriculum" by which rigorous studies are submerged in a queasy tide of "social" projects and group activity in the hands of "soul probers" who were once teachers...
Kennedy got his sharpest jolt fortnight ago when Brooklyn police solved the rape-murder of a 60-year-old grandmother. Grimly they announced that one of her two attackers was Patrolman Francis J. Rogers, 26, three years a policeman, whose father and brother are also on the force...
...quality of vibrant conviction that dominated the stage. Once he moved the house to bravos. Few in the audience realized that MacNeil was there for merely a one-shot appearance, was not given a rehearsal with the cast or orchestra. And few but La Scala's sharpest critical ears detected that MacNeil speaks no Italian, has to learn his roles by rote. Said MacNeil modestly: "There isn't much acting required; it's a kind of stand-there-and-bellow opera...