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...TRINIDAD. In this busy, commercial island off the coast of Venezuela, the brand-new, air-conditioned Trinidad Hilton, completed last summer, can count on traveling businessmen and conventions as well as tourists to keep its 261 rooms filled (rates: $20 to $37). Trinidad might be considered the Salzburg of the Caribbean-being the birthplace of calypso and the ubiquitous steel band. Its other claim to fame: the factory from which Angostura bitters sprays upon the civilized world...
Aside from such quicker-than-the-eye "economies," the new budget proposes to spend not less but more for those "other functions." It even requests funds for some brand-new programs, notably $60 million to establish a National Service Corps (the so-called Domestic Peace Corps) to "strengthen the volunteer spirit in the provision of social services in our local communities...
Better Than Jewels. In 1958, Reynolds went even further. He impulsively set up $6,000,000 in trust funds for Muriel; less impulsively, he made them revokable. For Christmas, he found a gift for the girl who had everything: a brand-new, $45,000 checking account...
...Ellender was at it again. It had long been his ambition to visit every country in the world (he keeps track of his record on a wall map in his office). He had just about satisfied that yearning when lo and behold, Africa began sprouting a whole bunch of brand-new nations. So off he went to Africa. In Morocco he paused to express a variety of opinions. "Egypt," said the segregationist Senator, "hasn't achieved anything great since the Pharaohs began practicing desegregation with their slaves . . . Ethiopia would have nothing if it weren't for the Italians...
Life Begins. "I think right now is possibly the best time of my life," says Judy Garland III. "I'm really starting to do my best work. I have three marvelous children, and I think I have a brand-new career opening up. Things have been different since my hepatitis attack in 1959, when they told me I might not live. I guess I was so concerned about my liver that I didn't have time to worry about anything else. Also, I turned 40 a few months ago. and when you hit that stage you feel that...