Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Board of Trade reported that Britain's November trade deficit was the worst in history: $530 million. The bad news dropped the minipound last week to the lowest level of its short life- $2.4005- and sparked a fresh round of gold buying on the London market and new speculation against ster ling. It was small satisfaction that the French, who have done their share of speculating against the pound in Brit ain's recent troubles, suddenly found themselves tarred by the same brush: ru mors of a devaluation of the franc plummeted France's coin...
Even though President de Gaulle withdrew his forces from the alliance's military setup, France is still a member of NATO. But it is beginning to show its lack of interest even on the political level: Foreign Minister Couve de Mur-ville sat in the political meetings and studiously read Le Monde. The French Foreign Minister's cool disdain for the proceedings was regarded by other ministers as a sign that France will exercise the option that becomes operative under the NATO charter in 1969 and withdraw from the organization entirely. De Gaulle reckons that since...
...prosecution thus stalled, the political implications became more apparent. Justice Minister Joao de Matos Antunes Varela, who has often been spoken of as a possible Salazar successor, left his post amid rumors that he had balked at Salazar's orders to halt the proceedings against the high-level defendants. Though none of Salazar's ministers has so far been identified as a patron of the ring, the scandal has given a highly charged issue to what antigovernment forces there are. Dr. Mario Scares, a prominent opposition lawyer, was arrested last week on charges of spreading malicious gossip abroad...
Taught mostly at the graduate level, the programs require students to be as familiar with secular writing as sacred. At the Methodists' Emory University in Atlanta, the first-year curriculum includes a study of drama from Aeschylus to Shakespeare; next spring, the university's celebrated Christian atheist, Thomas Altizer, will lecture on the theological and artistic expression of nihilism, concentrating on Baudelaire, Kazantzakis and Nietzsche...
Mercedes auto sales have raced past the rest of Germany's standstill economy, are running 5% ahead of their 1966 level of 191,625 cars. By year's end, sales of the company's cars, as well as its heavy duty trucks, buses and engines, which account for more than 40% of its business, should easily match last year's record $1.26 billion, yield more than $20 million in profits. And its exports to 160 countries will rise by 9% to 100,000 cars. Recession? Scoffs Dr. Joachim Zahn, Daimler's 53-year-old chief...