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...major benefactor of the robust dollar is the American tourist. Especially in Europe and Latin America, U.S. visitors are getting much more mileage from their traveler's checks than they were a year ago. Even though some hotels that cater to well-heeled visitors regularly raise their prices to keep pace with foreign currency changes, good values abound. In Paris, a four-course dinner at the three-star Tour d'Argent goes for about $54, expensive by most standards but still $17 cheaper than two years ago, thanks to a 74.8% appreciation in the dollar against the French...
Johnson's mentor and benefactor, flourished throughout L.B.J.'s career and even after Alice finally married Marsh, 24 years her senior. Until Viet Nam. She hated Johnson's obsession with the war and ended their relationship. Though L.B.J. often boasted of his later infidelities, he never discussed his affair with Glass, who died in 1976, perhaps out of deference to the lady's reputation, perhaps to that of Marsh's political and financial might. It was a relationship, says Caro, that "juts out of the landscape of Johnson's life...
...life: "The author [Bech] in these thin times supported himself by appearing at colleges. There, he was hauled from the creative-writing class to the faculty cocktail party to the John D. Benefactor Memorial Auditorium and thence, baffled applause still ringing in his ears, back to the Holiday Inn." Did Updike, invited by the Franklin Library, once agree to sign 20,000 volumes of Rabbit Run on the island of St. Thomas? Bech is lured by Su-perbooks, a subsidiary of the Superoil Corp., to autograph 28,500 sheets, at $1.50 each (Updike was paid a bit more...
...Neill, on the other hand, is the true benefactor of special interest groups and other fatcats. Most of his $250,000 has come from PAC's. Individual contribution have donated the rest, but their average contribution is over $900. Who should be considered the candidate of "Big Money...
...people should be left out of any constructive effort. Very frankly, the image of the U.S. is really tarnished. It is not the image one would ideally have liked for the major power that is supposed to be neutral. The image of America is that of Israel's benefactor, Israel's supporter, right or wrong. This could all be changed if the U.S. opened up to the rest of the world and sought the world's cooperation in resolving this problem...