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Dark days have overtaken Monte Carlo. Britons, who before World War II made up half of the gambling Casino's clientele, are now rare winter migrants. Due to British currency restrictions, the few who come to Monaco have little or nothing to gamble with. Some 95% of the current tourists are French who are equally indigent...
...Canterbury, had come from England to watch the proceedings. Presiding over the House of Bishops was the Episcopal Church's nearest equivalent (it was not very near) to the Primate of All England: the Most Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, Presiding Bishop of the Church since 1937, due to retire in December...
International polo used to mean the U.S. v. Argentina (and Great Britain) in a hard-riding, first-class show. The first big polo match since the war, probably due to recent diplomatic differences between Washington and Buenos Aires, was something less than that. At Long Island's International Field last week, 21,000 fans crowded the weather-beaten stands to watch a good U.S. team trounce a fair Mexican quartet for the second time in a three-match series...
...coveted Percy S. Straus trophy, which is awarded at the end of the year to the all-around champion among the houses, was last won by Leverett House in 1942. Due to the informal nature of the competition since then this will mark the first year that competition for the trophy is open again...
Some of the trouble was due to the rise in operating costs, which has sliced the profits of most U.S. companies. But most of the trouble was peculiar to the airlines: 1) unprecedented expenditures to expand routes, increase personnel and buy new equipment; 2) a $5 million drop in airmail revenues; 3) "no-show" passengers, who are costing the lines an estimated $8 million a year (CAB is expected to approve a penalty on "no-show" passengers soon...