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...Airport on a chartered jet that airline officials had first been told would only be carrying a ''valuable shipment'' from the Bank of Mexico. Weak and frail-looking, the Shah shuffled into a limousine and was then whisked away under tight security to a $300-a-day room in New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center on Manhattan's East Side...
...gash in his leg that he said was a bullet wound, and was dressed in the same gray business suit that he had been wearing on Aug. 2. Because Sindona was nearly incoherent from exhaustion, his physician immediately put him under sedation and whisked him to a $300-a-day room in fashionable Doctors Hospital...
...fleshpots. It will take him to towns as old as civilization, to architectural monuments, archaeological sites and little-known museums, uncrowded beaches and country fairs, superlative fishing, golf, tennis, hiking, biking, train rides and other forms of exploration and conviviality that do not come with a $100-a-day hotel room. Says Rene Bardy, an official of the French tourist bureau: "What is asked of today's tourist is that he be more curious and clever than he used...
...other end of the sprawling building, in the 24-hr.-a-day maintenance department, 35 mechanics and helpers stand ready to do everything from change a 100-lb. tire in 20 min. to make an oil and filter change in 40. There are four en closed repair bays, and sometimes the big rigs are lined up three and four deep waiting for service. At another bay, an automatic truck wash with 16-ft. brushes scours the outsides of 55-ft.-long tractor trailers in eight minutes at a cost...
Until now the Administration has given the impression that the U.S. could ride out the loss of Iranian oil without mandatory cutbacks until late spring or summer. The 900,000 bbl.-a-day shortfall in crude supplies resulting from the Iranian shutdown has so far been made up by increasing imports from other countries and drawing down domestic reserves. But Schlesinger said that the Government would move more quickly than expected to cut consumption so that stockpiles for next winter can be replenished over the spring and summer...