Word: germanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...severe austerity program, the franc regained some of its strength, and the free world's finely balanced monetary system was spared, at least for the moment, a major upheaval (see BUSINESS). But the political consequences of the crisis continued to reverberate in half a dozen capitals, The West Germans had defended the Deutsche Mark against the combined efforts of France, Britain and the U.S. to bring about the mark's upward revaluation, a move that would have relieved the pressure on the ailing franc and pound. In the process, the Germans displayed an independence-and a political muscle...
...paean: "Gold is the sun," he said, "and the dollar is the earth. The earth revolves around the sun and the relationship doesn't change." Retorted Schiller: "Then I guess we're all just little satellites launched from Cape Kennedy." After Jenkins and Fowler had characterized the German trade tax concessions as inadequate, Schiller declared, "If the lopping off of one third of our export surplus is not a sacrifice, then it is obvious that we have quite different concepts of social values...
Whatever Bonn's economic planning achievements, however, there are other, less tangible factors that have aided the German recovery. As the Bild Zeitung somewhat pompously observed last week in comparing the Federal Republic to France and Britain: "If we went on strikes and took breaks as often as the others, we too would have to go out and borrow, the only question being: From whom? If we had so suicidal a trade union system as the British, our mark would be just as tuberculous as the pound. If we had as many unsolved social problems as the French, then...
...experiences. Russia long denied that he was a spy, or indeed a Soviet citizen at all. At Abel's 1957 trial, he refused to disclose his identity, confessing only that he had entered the U.S. illegally. At that time, the Soviet press described him as a wretched German photographer victimized by "a hoax concocted by J. Edgar Hoover and American authors of lowbrow science fiction." In fact, as Abel now tells it, he was the son of a Russian revolutionary exiled to the far north under Czar Nicholas II. He prepared for his future vocation by distributing Bolshevik literature...
This is a story that every art collector, big and little, dreams of. At the flea market in Paris, a West German businessman buys a painting of two sunbathing nudes for $40. The picture is grimy, so he scrubs it with a strong solvent. Behold, a blue shimmer of paint appears below the surface, and a professional restorer uncovers a remarkable signature-"Claude Monet, 1877." Now fully restored, the canvas appears to be one of Monet's largest impressionistic versions of Paris' Gare St. Lazare. But how did Monet ever get covered over? Easy: it was the vogue...