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Snoop Scope. Still, despite the wealth, the excitement, the glamour, there are those who are less than happy with the Nixon presence. One group, though hardly in a position to complain, is the Mexican wetbacks, who since time immemorial have used the beach past the Nixon compound as an invasion route. Situated about 70 miles north of the Mexican border, the San Clemente beach had always provided an excellent detour around the Government checkpoints on the freeway northward. Now the beach is manned by dozens of Secret Service agents with infra-red lenses and every kind of detector imaginable...
...butterfly and the individual medley. It was nothing new for Gary. He broke three world records in this meet last year too. John Kinsella, 18, and Mark Spitz, 20, set new standards for freestylers, Kinsella in the 400 and 1500 meters, and Spitz in the 100-meter glamour race with a steaming 0:51.941. World marks in the 200-meter breaststroke and the 200-meter backstroke fell, respectively, to Brian Job, 18, and Mike Stamm, 18. Alice Jones, 18, led the girls by breaking world records in both the 100-and 200-meter butterfly. Nonpareil Debbie Meyer, 18, broke...
...about their identity. The extensive sale of hair straighteners, skin-lightening creams and $20 wigs bears witness to this fact. Many would undoubtedly like to emulate the handful of women who have attained the sophistication that marks them as black Frenchwomen and black Englishwomen. One woman of such apparent glamour is Younouss N'Diaye, a sensuous actress and painter who lived in France for five years before returning to Dakar, where she appears on television and has starred in a Senegalese motion picture, Le Mandat...
Morale varies widely among departments and agencies and often changes with changing circumstances. NASA's glamour quickly faded when the current economy cuts began. The Bureau of the Budget has excellent esprit, mostly because it has many jobs in the higher pay grades and advancement comes quickly. The status of chiefs can be important. At the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which attracts a high proportion of idealists, elan plummeted when it became obvious that the Administration was cool to the goals of many department officials...
...addition, the mutual funds?notably the newer, smaller "gogo" funds ?were largely responsible for the dazzling but dangerous cult of "performance." This notion, which began taking root in 1965, was that aggressive institutions could wring more profit from a rising market by swinging in and out of glamour issues than by holding on to solid stocks. Trading volume?and brokers' profits?rocketed. Go-go funds made great leaps, and even some staid trust officers in banks joined the stampede to buy and sell. According to a study released last week by the Twentieth Century Fund, the trading policies...