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...Midwest. Soon he was heading the Pentagon's topmost War Contracts Board, which in four years handled $190 billion worth of business, recovered $11 billion for the taxpayers. From the Pentagon, Dodge was taken by General Lucius Clay to Germany as a financial expert. To get war-torn Germany off its cigarette economy, Dodge proposed a 90% currency reduction (one mark for ten), coupled with capital levies on real property to even out the burden of defeat. "Imagine a Detroit banker advocating a capital levy," gulped an aghast colleague...
...morning, Panama's National Assembly met in its small, sweltering chamber and listened transfixed while a methodical clerk droned through long pages of sworn testimony. Most of the country's people, torn from sleep by the high drama, heard the evidence on their radios. When the clerk finished, Panamanians struggled to grasp an appalling accusation. According to the confessed triggerman, the highest plotter in last fortnight's race-track assassination of President Jose Antonio ("Chichi") Remón was none other than José Ramón Guizado, Remón's Vice President and legally...
...shot for the Trib's circulation turned out to be the world's worst hangover for the New York Public Library. Close to 500 telephone calls a day have been flooding into the library's reference center for answers to Tangle Towns clues. Pages have been torn from atlases, and thousands of dollars worth of other books mutilated or stolen. Fights have broken out when as many as 25 people tried to grab the same volume of an encyclopedia; some eager contestants have removed source books from their proper places on the shelves, hidden them where...
...library's solutions were wrong. In any case, it said that the contestants for the final tiebreakers would meet in the paper's offices, where no outside help will be allowed. As for the city's damaged libraries, the Trib was planning to help replace torn, mutilated and missing books...
Russian-born Zoé Oldenbourg's complex tale of knights and knaves is packed with scenes of horror. Children are slaughtered, adolescent girls raped, women's breasts cut off, men's eyes torn out. But unlike most historical novelists, Author Oldenbourg does not indulge in bloodletting and vices for the sake of the thrill. She has merely held up a mirror to the 13th century so that her readers might know what it was like. Young Haguenier's marriage and romance show in painstaking detail how a young man of good family once lived, wedded...