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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coronation cost about $20 million, which was a bit much for a country whose annual gross domestic product (mostly from diamonds, cotton and timber) is only $250 million. Kenya's Sunday Nation wrote sarcastically about Bokassa's "clowning glory." Zambia's Daily Mail deplored the new Emperor's "obnoxious excesses." Bokassa was unfazed by such criticism, since he knows full well that others will end up paying for his little ceremony. The Emperor will accept aid money from anyone, and currently receives it from South Africa, China and the Soviet Union. The bulk of the largesse...
...Present and would-be home chefs support hundreds of cooking schools in the U.S. They are mostly very good?notably James Beard's and Lydie Marshall's classes in Manhattan, or Mary Nell Reek's in Houston, or Rita Leinwand's in Los Angeles. A five-lesson program can cost as much as $350. Boston alone supports 29 cooking schools, teaching everything from dicing to making Dampfnudeln. Whether for culinary kudos or to master grande cuisine, Americans sometimes spend $3,060 (not counting jet fare or hotel bills) to take a twelve-week course at the newest, Inmost school...
...Senate conference, and last week the conferees approved one of the key Administration-supported measures. The legislators tentatively accepted the "gas guzzler tax" in just about the form the President first presented it. Under this law, which would take effect next fall, cars delivering less than 15 m.p.g. will cost an extra $200; those getting less than 14 m.p.g. will be taxed $300. If the mileage is below 13, the bite will be $550. Tax levels will steadily rise, and by 1985 cars doing less than 12.5 will be taxed a whopping $3,850. In that year, the levy...
...reason for the decline is the popularity of competing resorts. While the number of hotel rooms in Miami Beach fell by 3,000 during the past decade, Las Vegas added 15,000 and Hawaii, prospering on cheap air charters, increased its total by more than 27,000 rooms. Low-cost tourist packages ($319 for travel and lodging in London; only $355 for a return flight from New York to Casablanca) have drawn away the younger set, while retired sun seekers have been lured to Mexico, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. The surprising boom of the Caribbean cruise business added...
...Army Corps of Engineers is restoring the beach. There is talk of building a model of Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens on Watson Island, which is connected to the Beach and the mainland by one of four causeways. Another proposal is to renew South Beach, at a cost of $500 million. The area now attracts winos and beach bums to its sleazy hotels and littered alleys. Despite everything, Miami Beach still has the assets of pleasant climate and huge convention facilities, while businessmen have appealed for $100 million in Government guarantees and outright loans to refurbish and expand...