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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Revaluation: increasing the value of a currency by making its money unit worth more in gold, as both West Germany and The Netherlands have done in recent years...
...amount of gold for which a nation is willing to exchange its unit of currency. This figure is registered with the International Monetary Fund, and may not be changed by more than 10% without the approval...
...ways to generate its own six-nation currency for international trade, and France has been pushing to create a ten-nation "cru" (composite reserve unit...
...shock of his innovations bred rebellion and outrage. Nevertheless he got commissions. His 1952 Unité d'Habitation in Marseille lifted 337 apartments on stilts to give them a view of the Alps. On its surface of rough poured concrete, the marks of wooden forms remained like a touch of man's hand-a touch that so many modern glass-and-steel structures lack. At Chandigarh, the new governmental seat of the state of Punjab in India, Corbu set about making battlements on a plain. Rendering to God as well as man, he designed a chapel at Ronchamp...
...convention in Washington two weeks ago, top officers of the typographers and the Guild met to try to patch over some of their differences. About all they accomplished was to agree vaguely to strive for better communication between the unions and to meet again this month. Meanwhile, the Guild unit at the New York Times has voted to strike if a "satisfactory" contract has not been reached by Sept. 12; the Herald Tribune and Journal-American Guildsmen have also voted to strike but have not set a date...