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OLYMPICS fans arriving in Mexico City may have picked the best time ever. True, the balmy days are marred by just a touch of smog and the brisk evenings by a faint drizzle. But the city has never looked better. The preparations, of course, were carried out a la mexicana-with the in evitable, exuberant last-minute scramble to get a job done on time. The citizens proudly feel that it was their test, and they made it. Mexico City, scrubbed, brash, vital, is as bright and gay as a piñata party...
Rumania seemed outwardly calm, but both government and people grew gnawingly uneasy over Russian intentions. On Monday, a gleaming black Jaguar Mark X pulled up to the broad steps of Bucharest's imposing Central Committee building. A brisk little man in a dark suit climbed alone into the back seat. It was Ceausescu, off to the industrial center of Brasov to address factory workers. He was on the move throughout the country each day last week in a skillful and seemingly remarkably successful campaign to rally his people behind him in preparation for a possible clash with the Soviets...
Some 3,000 Arabs work in the Jewish area of the city. By paying Israeli income tax, the Arabs of Jerusalem now enjoy the benefits of Israel's advanced social welfare system. There is a brisk traffic of Jews and Arabs, for business and pleasure, between the two sectors of the formerly divided city. On Friday nights young Jews can, for example, escape from the rigors of the Sabbath into three discotheques in the Arab section. Most important, until last week there had been no major incidents of violence among the two populations of Jerusalem...
...grew at a real rate (i.e., not including inflation) of 5%. In the second quarter, the nation's output of goods and services increased by $19.6 billion, which was only a shade under the first quarter's record $20.2 billion. Corporate profits more than kept up the brisk pace. Among the early reports...
...ovation; a woman sat in the previously all male press gallery; and a lot of bearded, beaded students saw the inside of the Park for the first time. Women in long black dresses walked by hot dog stands looking for their husbands as the Red Sox home's traditional brisk beer business fell off sharply...