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Without publicizing the fact, the grandly misnamed Société des Bains de Mer et du Cercle des Etrangers á Monaco (S.B.M.),* the company that runs the casino and most of the other tourist haunts in the tiny principality of Monaco, has removed the ceiling for some of the casino's best-heeled aficionados...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOURISM: Red into Black | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

That Abbie Hoffman set a bad exam ple for John Mitchell and that the for mer chief law officer of the land was very impressionable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Scrambling to Break Clear of Watergate | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

...second undated memo, which Dean said was another briefing paper for Haldeman but was prepared by for mer White House Aide John Caulfield, complained that Republican appointees at IRS "lack guts and effort" and "appear afraid and unwilling to do anything that could be politically helpful." As a result, the document said, the White House staff was unable to crack down on tax-exempt foundations that "feed left-wing political causes," to obtain information from the IRS "regarding our political enemies," to "stimulate audits of persons who should be audited" or to place Nixon supporters in the IRS bureaucracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Playing Politics with Tax Returns | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

...signs are pointing the other way. Mrs. Meir has offered Dinitz's for mer job as director general of the Prime Minister's office to Mordechai Gazit, who was her chief political adviser when she was Foreign Minister. Observers in Jerusalem, moreover, can think of at least three reasons why Golda would want to run again. One is that she is in generally good health and would have nothing to keep her busy if she retires. Another is that Mrs. Meir feels that only she can talk firmly to President Nixon during what may turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: What Makes Golda Run? | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

Whatever the scientists find, the people of Naples are not likely to have their faith shaken by bloodless unbelievers. They have been through it all before. In 1750 one iconoclast sought to discredit "Miracle" San with a Gennaro mixture by of gold, effecting mer the cury and sulphide of mercury. In 1890 an Italian professor got results from a concoction of chocolate, water, sugar, casein, milk serum and salt. Even the Vatican's doubts did not daunt the Neapolitans. After San Gennaro lost his place on the church calendar, a fervent follower scrawled on the saint's altar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Godfather of Naples | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

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