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...changing money at banks rather than hotels or airports, which stay open past banking hours and charge for their convenient service. When booking return flights to the U.S., travelers can also stretch their dollars by asking to be billed in the currency of the country from which they will depart...
...member of the Board of Overseers, who asked not to be identified, said facetiously that it would be "heart-wrenching" for the University to depart from traditional practice, but added. "Nothing ventured, nothing wrenched...
...stood there watching, his hands sunk deep in his pockets. He went on watching until the last plane circled into the darkness overhead. A correspondent standing near him said the general's eyes were full of tears. That same afternoon, after he watched the first troop convoys preparing to depart, Eisenhower had scribbled a strange note for himself, a message that would be ready if everything ended in disaster: "Our landings ... have failed ... The troops, the Air and Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt...
Last week Feldstein announced that he would be leaving Washington on July 10 to return to his teaching position at Harvard. Even as he prepared to depart, however, he found himself in a familiar position: at odds once again with Administration policy. Top Reagan officials had just opened a new offensive against the Federal Reserve Board, arguing that it was endangering the recovery by keeping too firm a grip on the money supply. But Feldstein contended, at a meeting with reporters to announce his departure, that the Federal Reserve is "pursuing the right kinds of policy...
Washington is especially pleased by Mitterrand's foreign policy. A staunch advocate of the Atlantic Alliance, the French President strongly supported the deployment of new U.S. missiles on European soil. He contributed 2,000 men to the Multi-National Force in Beirut (the last to depart, the French plan to withdraw this week) and dispatched some 3,000 troops to halt a Libyan-backed rebellion in Chad. The only major disagreement is on U.S. policy in Central America, which Mitterrand implicitly criticized during his speech to Congress. "Civil wars are not triggered by external influence alone, even if they...