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...History has its parallels to your story [Aug. 2] about the young lady who got high when she took a dip in a reflecting pool with her hashish supply stowed...
Unlike the tourists, most Americans who work abroad are paid in local currencies, and will not be damaged by the dollar's dip. But a few dollar-salaried executives of U.S.-owned firms in foreign countries stand to lose in direct proportion to any devaluation. Some companies, however, may try to boost salaries back to the good old levels. No relief is expected for retired Americans living abroad, some 50,000 in Italy alone, who get by on fixed pensions and Social Security payments...
...DECADE ago, the U.S. entered on the longest continuous noninflationary expansion in its history-more than four years of golden growth. It was a time when Henry Ford could pass off a sales dip with the quip: "Business is merely terrific instead of phenomenal." Today's businessmen, disillusioned by the current economy, have been looking longingly back at those good old days. How was that prosperity managed? Could the measures used in the early '60s have a salutary effect...
...method-packing her ear. The aural high was reported in a whimsical letter to the New England Journal of Medicine by Dr. Thomas E. Piemme of the George Washington University School of Medicine. Identified only as a "young lady of 18," the unwitting pioneer was undressing for a nude dip in the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool during an antiwar demonstration. She solved the problem of how to protect half a gram of hashish by depositing it in her left ear. How to extract the wad became another problem; amateur efforts pushed the dampened hash deeper into the external auditory canal...
...Many of the partygoers took a dip in the ocean or the King's pool. Some shot clay pigeons. The principal sporting event was a golf tournament; Hassan is such an ardent golfer that a 20-ft. birthday picture hanging in one of Rabat's main squares depicted him in golfing clothes. At the 18th hole, U.S. Ambassador Stuart W. Rockwell chatted with General Mohammed Medbouh, commander of the King's military household. "We are the only ones who take golf seriously," sniffed Medbouh. ∙ A lavish buffet, which included lobster, smoked salmon, roast sheep and couscous...