Word: dollar
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...first time ever, the British pound has plunged below $2. It dropped to $1.915 before rising slightly to $1.928 at week's end. The Italian lira has lost 18% of its value since January; it now stands at 806 to the dollar, v. 633 only one year ago. Beset by economic troubles, Spain devalued the peseta by 10% last month. There are strong indications that the French franc may also be forced into devaluation...
Crucial Test. Even as the weak grow weaker, the strong currencies become yet stronger (see chart). The value of the Swiss franc, the world's solidest currency, has increased 5% since last September, while the West German mark has risen 3%. The dollar, which had been suffering only two years ago, now has won new respect abroad as Europeans become increasingly impressed with the vigor of the U.S. economic recovery...
...portray Alan Casper, Native Intelligence is fine; it is as a real novel that it is hampered by its own wit and restless eclecticism. The materials in the novel run a bizarre gamut from an incredibly difficult crossword puzzle (Sokolov offers to send readers the solution, for a dollar), to a lengthy glossary of the Xixi language, to purported New York Times clippings, to a threatening letter Alan writes President Kennedy. The feeling emerges from it all that Sokolov is playing myriad obscure jokes throughout, that some second satiric meaning lurks behind everything. Is the Xixi language full of esoteric...
...nights"-meaning in TV jargon the nights the network swamps the ratings-are not much different from the other networks' fare. ABC's top shows are only too familiar comedies such as Happy Days and its offspring Laverne and Shirley, sci-fi fantasies like The Six Million Dollar Man, from whose stainless-steel rib was cloned the Bionic Woman, and a lineup of crime that includes Starsky and Hutch and S. W.A. T. ABC has placed at least four shows in the top ten since the start of the second season...
Laws. Law school students make fun of themselves in their annual show, an original musical comedy about a daydreamer who imagines himself such diverse characters as Perry Mason and the Six Million Dollar Justice. Recommended for pre-laws. In the Multipurpose Room in Pound Hall, March 11-14 and 17-20, at 8 p.m. Tickets...