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...Hiss case (1948), the fund furor and Checkers speech (1952), Ike's heart attach (1955), the Latin American tour (1958), the Kitchen Debate with Kruschev (1959), the 1960 presidential campaign...
...your article on the sale of the passenger ship France [April 8], you mention that "the French attach great importance to symbols of national prestige," as though this were a rather unique national trait. Let's see now-just how much did the Apollo program cost...
Speed, however, has proved to be a more marketable commodity than elegance. Never able to divert enough passengers from the jets, the France lost $24 million last year and could lose three times as much in 1974 because of soaring fuel costs. Thus, although the French attach great importance to symbols of national prestige, the Minister of Transport announced last week that the government could no longer "ignore the pressing economic problems of the day." The subsidies to the ship, which is two-thirds government-owned, will end this spring, and the $80 million France will...
President Nixon, who had warned the Arabs not to attach any "conditions" to the lifting of the five-month-old embargo, chose not to regard the decision to review as being a condition. That was a wise diplomatic attitude; without such a string attached, it is unlikely that the divided Arab* could ever have agreed on a plan for resuming exports to the U.S. As it was, Syria and Libya refused to join in the decision, taken in Vienna at a meeting of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries...
...acknowledges that The Exorcist was plagued by a "series of disasters": halfway through the filming, fire destroyed the set, and the man who was playing the director died. But he notes: "There has been a devil theory that sinister forces were annoyed by the film. I don't attach any significance to it. Still," he adds with a sly smile, "I would like to think that somebody down there doesn't like...