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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canada's dollar has always held close to the U.S. dollar -in value. Soon after Canada rejected the sterling system in 1853 to adopt a decimal-based monetary system, the government pegged its dollar on a par with the U.S. dollar. Later, Canadian money was freed to find its own level. In 1940 the dollar dropped to a low of 78 U.S. cents; as World War II progressed, Ottawa pegged its dollar at 90?. After Canada dropped all monetary controls again in 1950, the Canadian dollar began its slow rise to last week's high...
...FREED FOR SERVICE IN THE WORLD: Love and compassion must be translated "into the structures of justice . . . We are also redeemed from the pressures of conformity. God's word often questions what our environment takes for granted. The Spirit gives us the courage to stand alone...
...Congress Party, back from a tour of Kerala, reported a "complete breakdown of law and order." Red Minister Namboodiripad was proud of it: he plans, he said, to close many of the state's jails and turn their grounds into public flower gardens. He had already freed many Communists from jail, whatever the charges on which they were convicted...
Losing Paula snaps the little coherence remaining in Robert: he knocks Pierre down; he drunkenly invites the shocked Elisabeth to share his bed; he speeds away from Viridis with a gaggle of his Paris friends. Both the Gornacs thank God-Elisabeth for having been freed of "an evil presence," Pierre for having sufficient humility not to resent having been punched. Then, days later, they learn that Robert has been killed in an auto accident...
...when a truckload of soup stood ready to be unloaded and passed out by a detachment of police, the hungry prisoners were hammering and pounding at the rotted wooden doors that closed their cells. A few of the old doors gave way, and the suddenly freed men began freeing their fellow prisoners. "We're hungry," they shouted, and when nothing happened, they began tossing machinery and empty food carts into the courtyard. The more diligent of the inmates began making bonfire piles of stools and pallets. Others ripped off cell doors to feed the flames. As acrid fumes rose...