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...strain on the United Kingdom's reserves have come from the weak payments position of Britain and of the other countries in the sterling area and from speculation against sterling, he said. Bernstein attributed the poor payments position of sterling area countries also to inflation, and called for strict financial policies there as well as in Britain. fied, he said by the large amount of sterling held by non-sterling banks due to war payments to Europe and South America. When sterling is under pressure these banks tend to liquidate their holdings, he explained...
...what makes this unsophisticated book more interesting than most jungle jour nals is the sophisticated corporal's many-sided marital problem. By her fifth month of pregnancy, Ilouhi is obliged, under the strict tribal law, to find her husband a second wife. Rene protests the bigamy: "To carry out my mission would I have to become . . . lord and master of a harem?" But Ilouhi finds him Crey the Bahnar huntress, a wild creature from the inner jungle. With the appearance of Crey, Riesen is surprised to discover in the de voted Ilouhi "that boundless distress which...
After this strict preparatory school regimen, the foreign students finds university life very free. Lecture attendance has traditionally been voluntary; the Communists have antagonized the East German students by making attendance at lectures and examinations obligatory
...Point No. 2: The U.S., as soon as Russia and the West had ended nuclear-weapons production under strict inspection and enforcement, would join with Russia in dismantling some of its nuclear bombs and turning over the fissionable material to an international agency according to a 53-47 ratio, i.e., of every 100 lbs. of material transferred for peaceful purposes, the U.S. would provide 53 lbs., the Russians...
...reason for the strict enforcement officials said, is the difficulty of establishing parietal rules in a dormitory system not designed for co-education...