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...immense debt to its close-knit fraternity of central bankers. Within the space of eleven months, their informal collaboration has overcome the turmoil of British devaluation, an upheaval in France and a stampede for gold that culminated in the worst international money crisis since the 1930s. A serious slip at any crucial point along the line could have wrecked the wobbly system of international finance, bringing wholesale currency devaluations and economic chaos. Last week the bankers tried to stave off another incipient crisis almost before the world realized that there was one brewing...
...objections that this would put a floor under the free-market price and thus reward speculators against the dollar, the idea has gradually won strong backing among European bankers. Many worry that the value of their own hefty gold stocks would be lowered if the free-market price should slip below the official price. The larger South Africa's gold pile grows, the more nervous the bankers get, fearful that the great golden overhang might somehow cause the free-market price to collapse. Some see South African sales to the IMF as a clever way to let European countries...
...made, he says, "the one who is left feels rejected." He recalled a case last year in which one boy with a fetish for cleanliness hung a rope across his room to isolate a roommate, who left dirty underwear scattered about. The rejected boy turned morose, let his grades slip, dropped out of school...
...outside, the Yardlings boast four or five strong wings that give Harvard a wide open scoring game. Russ Bell on the right is the most exciting to watch. A sleeper in the offense, he has lively finesse bringing the ball down the field and enough speed to slip behind the fullbacks for the quick score. He will be complemented on the left by either Eric Pope, Doug Watt, or Jimmy Carrow...
...course, a verbal slip by a man famous for his bouts with the lan guage. Yet it said perhaps more than the mayor intended. Despite a 77-page official "white paper" and a blanket endorsement of his police by Daley him self, city authorities had yet to convince thousands who were there that the Chicago cops had been anything less than brutal to demonstrators, news men and almost anyone else who got in their way during the four days of the Democratic Convention...