Word: shorting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...scorer has been Lenny Strauss, a lanky 6 ft., 2 in. forward, who gained All-State recognition in Missouri last year. Strauss is averaging 16 1/2 points per game, mostly on rebounds and short jump shots...
...keep the inflation-ridden economy from collapsing, Kubitschek must juggle his debts faster and faster. Caught short of dollars two months ago and faced with a six-month, $87.7 million repayment installment to the Export-Import Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Brazil arranged a six-month payments moratorium-but the next Brazilian ad ministration will have to resume payments. To meet the internal demand for dollars, the Bank of Brazil recently started selling (at a discount) certificates for dollars deliverable within 90 days. The first batch of $80 million must be redeemed in dollars beginning...
...Before such an extraordinary document," wrote the Communist Lettres Françaises grudgingly, "one can't help admiring the candor with which Americans portray their army. The fact that a French producer was authorized to make such a film indicates great liberalism." The film is a 24-minute short titled The Marines, and its producer is François Reichenbach, 38, who made a big New Wave splash last spring with his first full-length movie, the much criticized L'Amérique Insolite (generally translated "unusual"). For his latest effort, a stark study of the Parris Island...
...until 1953, when he bought a tiny, wrist-strapped, 16-mm. camera to film the Grand Prix de Paris, did Reichenbach find his calling, and begin to make short documentaries about the U.S. For L'Amérique Insolite he spent 18 months crisscrossing the continent in an effort to capture "the American from birth to death, his extraordinary youth, his passions, his love of violence, his kindness...
...pleasant things include some stylishly medieval Hanya Holm processions and dances, a gleaming Great Hall investiture of knights, some scattered Lerner lyrics and Loewe songs. But Camelot falls short of sophisticated glitter and shorter of romantic glow...