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...seems special. "I've never seen anything like it," says British Travel Agent Dennis Carver. "They're willing to go almost anywhere." As long as they go to the Med. The Continent's treasured southern beaches are awash in bodies glued together ham to hock. Dark-skinned Arabs flirt with pale northerners. Africans peddle snakeskin handbags and handcrafted jewelry. Dogs, children and wind surfers turn sand and sea into a hazardous obstacle course for casual bathers. In France the separation of "nude" and "family" beaches has been almost completely, well, swept away in the rush to expose...
...banker has a point. Since 1950, while the U.S. population has grown 44%, the total of consumer installment debt outstanding has multiplied more than twelve times, to roughly $179 billion-and that does not include home-mortgage debt. If consumers in any month go into hock less rapidly than they did the month before, economists view their self-denial as a worrisome sign. And if Americans ever start to pay off old debts faster than they take on new ones, unsold merchandise piles up at an alarming rate...
...Russian role in Peru continues to worry Washington, even though Lima has taken a definite turn to the right in the past year. Peru is still $500 million in hock to Moscow, and Peruvian pilots have been receiving flight training in Cuba from Soviet advisers...
...abroad to pay for more of their imports. Says Karoly Ravasz, a Hungarian official: "Instead of ordinary lathes, we must produce precision machinery. Instead of textiles that sell in flea markets, we want to sell fashionable clothes." Only in that way can the Communists avoid going much deeper into hock to the West...
Until 1935 baseball remained an afternoon pastime; then MacPhail flooded Cincinnati's Crosley Field with banks of lights and gave a new dimension to the game. With his indomitable optimism he bailed clubs out of hock and transformed cellar teams into pennant winners: the Cincinnati Reds, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Yankees. Off the diamond, MacPhail put his improbable imagination to work in the practice of law, managing a department store, as a banker, a football referee, a church organist and a breeder of thoroughbred horses. As an artillery captain following the Armistice of World War I, he persuaded...