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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 16, 1977
HENRI LANGLOIS, Founder, Head Of French Cinema Collection |
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Henri Langlois, 62, founder-director of the Cinematheque Francaise and one of the most influential figures of the international film community, died Thursday after a heart attack at his Paris home.Mr. Langlois was regarded as a patron saint by most of the French film establishment. Director Jean Renoir, referring to himself and other filmmakers of his own and later generations, once said of Mr. Langlois: "We owe our passion for films to him."The collection of... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - January 13, 1977
Peking Banquets |
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Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua welcomed a Liberian good-will delegation at a Peking banquet Tuesday night, the New China News Agency said. Liberia has diplomatic links with Taiwan.The Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs gave a banquet in Peking for David Rockefeller, chairman of the Chase Manhattan bank, the agency reported. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 28, 1977
Michael Mickett, U.S. Employee, Home Loan Bank Board Official |
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Michael Mickett, 59, an official of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and a government employee for more than 30 years, died at Suburban Hospital Saturday as the result of an internal hemorrhage.Mr. Mickett was the acting director of the office of finance of the Federal Home Loan Bank at the time of his death. He was responsible for the board's investment activities. He began his career with teh agency in 1956 as an investment analyst. Prior to that time, he had worked for the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 16, 1977
Spain's gross national product grew by only 1.9 p |
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Spain's gross national product grew by only 1.9 per cent last year and the economy was still in recession, the Bank of Spain said.In its annual report on the economy, the bank noted that the 1976 rate was an improvement over 1975's 0.8 per cent. But it was below the yearly average of 6.6 per cent achieved during the boom decade of 1965 to 1974.The bank said that the slow rate of production caused unemployment stands at about 6 per cent of the work force, or... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 23, 1977
Rabin Steps Down |
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Israeli's Defense Minister Shimon Peres became acting prime minister as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin took a leave of absence. Rabin, who officially remains prime minister until a new government emerges from next month's elections, had agreed to step down after disclosures that he and his wife illegally had maintained U.S. bank accounts. ... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 3, 1977
A Kid's First 'Real Game,' And the Woeful '37 Dodgers |
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Bill Roeder, who edits the Newsmakers section of Newsweek, is a rehabilitated baseball writer. We covered the Brooklyn Dodgers together for a while. Suddenly, there were no Brooklyn Dodgers and there were in Cleveland, trying to pay attention: were the Yankees 10 games ahead of 12?We were in the Wigwam Room of Municipal Stadium, free-loading our supper, when Roeder mumbled through his salad: "Prewar National League infielder J.B." It was, without warning, the trivia... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 30, 1977
An Artful Merger |
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Oil billionaire and art entrepreneur Dr. Armand Hammer announced yesterday that his Knoedler Gallery and a Swiss art-investment fund will merge as a $40-million firm aimed specifically at sales among the oil-rich Arabs."The Arabs are already into stocks and real estate, and given particularly the depreciation in the stock market, we think they might be attracted by the solider investments in the art market," Dr. Hammer in a telephone interview yesterday.... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 1, 1977
Weather Chills Dollar |
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The dollar dropped sharply against European currencies and the yen yesterday as U.S. banks, entered the foreign exchange market in the afternoon as sellers.European dealers said American bankeers were worried about the possibility that cold weather and lack of natural gas supplies would hurt the U.S. economy and keep short-term U.S. interest rates low for a longer period than previously supposed.The dollar fell to 2.4065 marks from 2.4247 and to 2,5054 Swiss francs from 2.515. It also... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 1, 1977
Weather Chills Dollar |
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The dollar dropped sharply against European currencies and the yen yesterday as U.S. banks, entered the foreign exchange market in the afternoon as sellers.European dealers said American bankeers were worried about the possibility that cold weather and lack of natural gas supplies would hurt the U.S. economy and keep short-term U.S. interest rates low for a longer period than previously supposed.The dollar fell to 2.4065 marks from 2.4247 and to 2,5054 Swiss francs from 2.515. It also... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - April 19, 1977
In a surprise decision by its policy board the Ba |
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In a surprise decision by its policy board the Bank of Japan yesterday said the official discount rate will be lowered to 5 per cent from the current 6 per cent, efective today.The decision follows a lowering of the rate from 6.5 to 6 per cent on March 12, and is expected to help stimulated Japan's sluggish economic recovery. The discount rate had stood at 6.5 per cent since a one-point drop OCt. 23, 1975.The Bank of Japan didn't mention interest rates on... |
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