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Another feature of both devaluation plans is that West Germany--France's principal trading partner--would put a tax on its exports and reduce its tax on imports. This would decrease France's recent trade deficit with Germany--one of the main causes of the present weakness of the franc...
Amy Allen, on the other hand, is delightful as the maid Toinette who brings about the final happy conclusion. In front of Argan's weakness, her insouciance and her defiance of the father's pomposity are refreshing. Over and over Argan calls her "a slut." In essence she is, and...
Republican charges about "mismanagement" of the Pentagon are misleading, but they appeal to voters for several reasons. Nixon stands in sharp contrast to Hubert Humphrey, who has emphatically stated that the United States has enough nuclear weapons. Humphrey's problem is that he seems willing to let the Russians catch...
The library goes on collecting as fast as ever--building on its strengths and working on areas of weakness. In the late 1950's, for example, the library began collecting Oriental manuscripts, of which it had only a few. "There were opportunities, the prices weren't high, and there wasn...
Albee's characters have never been quite believable, but he used to have a fine knack for making their hostilities waspishly real. His weakness has been an inability to spin a plot, which is why he has adapted and borrowed so much. In Box-Mao he tries to make...