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...price of a beer a girl is yours to fondle without restraint. For another 200 kip-about 40 cents-she will take off all her clothes, sit beside you, or jump on top of you at your urging...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: Hitching Through Laos Or, When is a Trail Not a Trail? | 6/7/1971 | See Source »

...case, the black hole itself could never be observed. The only thing a dedicated scientist might do, muses Caltech Physicist Kip Thorne, long a black-hole theorist, would be to ride down the surface of a collapsing star and into a black hole. "Of course, he could never get back out, or communicate his results to the outside. But who is to deny a man the right to his own personal pursuit of knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Much Ado About Nothing | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

...know that when I went to Laos at age sixteen, I didn't smoke any dope, didn't bring any back, either? Do you know that it was selling in the marketplace for 200 kip-40c-an ounce? Do you know how I cried when I read all about it later in the Times, the moralistic stories about the international hippies who were crashing in Vientiane and tripping constantly? Of course, it all would have turned out rather differently if I'd been smoking over there-the ultimate horror wouldn't have sunk...

Author: By Julia T. Reed, | Title: Keeping Colonial Laos Profitable | 2/17/1971 | See Source »

...SEPT., '68. I am enclosing some Communist kip [propaganda] I picked up. The guy I got it from decided he was on the wrong side, and made the switch rather than fight. Hang on to it. I want to save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bulletins from Bad Guy Land | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...from the names of three Indian families involved in black-marketeering in Saigon. The Pry Sumeen account has recently been active again, according to Senator Abraham Ribicoff. Last week he charged that money from a U.S.-backed fund intended to stabilize the Laotian currency (whose basic unit is the kip) turned up in the same account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Scandal of Secret Swiss Bank Accounts | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

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