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...current lair on Paradise Island, where he found a James Bond atmosphere: "You can be sipping a gin fizz, chatting with London on the bar phone, going over the local paper and still keep an eye on Hughes' windows. The poolside steel band is throbbing. Your glance drifts upward and you zoom in on those convex ninth-floor balconies...
Like sunshine after a storm, a mood of calm confidence is brightening the stock market as it moves into the new year. Buoyed by cheering economic prospects, investors have pushed stock prices steadily upward for seven weeks...
...arena stage leaks away dramatic intensity. Open space proves to be the actor's enemy in this building, leaving him ungrounded, unfocused and lacking gravity. Watching a play in the vast vertical reaches of the Vivian Beaumont is like seeing a child's lost balloon float upward and upward until it becomes a speck against...
...large French gold reserves ($3.5 billion worth at latest count) thus increased in value by 8.6% though the gains are largely theoretical for the time being, since the U.S. has stopped trading in gold. France also kept its currently prosperous trading position. The franc was not required to revalue upward at all (though it rose against the dollar by the 8.6% amount of Washington's devaluation). More important, the West German mark was set at a value 5% higher than the franc, giving French exports a long-term price advantage over West Germany...
...down 7.9% relative to foreign currencies. Thus, European and Japanese businessmen, tourists and investors will pay 7.9% less-and in many cases less than that-for American goods and services. A further complexity is that a number of other countries have changed their own currencies by revaluing them upward. All together, counting the dollar's decline and the increases in some foreign currencies, the dollar's value relative to others in foreign trade will be about 10% less than earlier this year, when the monetary chaos began...