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Other nations are also planning to join in, with aid, trade and investments. Sweden has announced that it will give $70.5 million to North Viet Nam over the next three years. The French, who have never got Viet Nam out of their blood, will seek to revive the huge Michelin rubber plantations near Saigon, which are now producing at scarcely 40% of prewar levels. The French also plan to make investments in transportation and trucking in the South. Meanwhile, in West Germany, Britain and other nations, businessmen are looking forward to winning construction or development contracts...
...book's user can find his way around with the help of the clearest, most informative urban maps this side of France's Michelin guides. He will discover the delicate wrought-iron tracery of Fairmount Park's old bridges, the city's best ice cream stand (Bassett's in Reading Terminal Market), and even a giant automobile crusher on Penrose Avenue. To make sense of the city streets, the book traces Philadelphia's growth from the neat rectangular grid of streets studded with parks laid out by Penn himself in 1622, through later annexations...
...Michelin guide to Paris describes learning at the Sorbonne in the old days to a way which reminds me of Harvard...
...surreptitious trip to Peking. Arriving in Paris amid rumors that he might try to see the Communist negotiators, he was closely watched by reporters. Yet he managed to slip away for a four-hour talk with the North Vietnamese before he was spotted in Chez Garin (one of Michelin's two-star restaurants) with an attractive U.S. television producer, Margaret Osmer. It would perhaps be ungallant or even naive to say that Kissinger merely used her as a decoy, but it had that effect. The press collectively winked and concluded that Henry was up to nothing serious in Paris...
...beast of similar breed but of the opposite sex awaits it. For an extra $2 or $3 per day, the pet receives a weekly "toilette" and food delicacies, and the host family* writes regular reports to the vacationing owner. The club even provides its own version of the Guide Michelin. Cat-housing families are awarded ratings of one mouse, two mice or three mice; and dog boarders get from one to three bones...