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...Albania, on which he reports this week, Behr found the gap between fact and pictured fancy even wider than he expected. "Visiting Albania." he said, "is like putting the clock back and waking up in the Balkans of the 16th century, with telephone wires, modern weapons, and a little motor transport added...
...like most modern sports such as sports car racing, motor-cycling, or skindiving, parachuting is not inexpensive. At Mansfield, for example, a first jump costs $25 the following two $15 and the next two $10--a total of $75 for the five static-line student jumps and membership in the C.P.C. The cost of each subsequent free-fall jump averages only about $3, however...
...chauffeur-driven Cadillacs and Mercedeses, Munoz Grandes favors a small black sedan. Once he drove along Madrid's streets stopping chauffeured military cars whose only passengers were army wives, politely asked them to get out and take taxis, and told the drivers to go back to the motor pool...
...inevitable shapely models splashed to music in a rooftop pool, the Boston-based Sheraton Corp. last week opened its new, $12 million Sheraton Motor Inn on Manhattan's West Side. Billed as the "world's largest motel," the 20-story Motor Inn sits improbably among tatty warehouses beside the piers where the transatlantic liners dock, and offers its customers, along with free parking, a spectacular view of the Hudson. Judging from the first curious-tourist turnout, business should be good. But far from taking this as encouragement to go on to even bigger things. Sheraton President Ernest Henderson...
...slapped on tight new import curbs to protect its dwindling supply of dollars, the prospects for many a foreign firm doing business in Venezuela looked bleak indeed. The industrial giants with major markets in Venezuela could vault the new import wall easily enough by building Venezuelan plants-as Ford Motor Co. and several others have already done. But for foreign firms whose Venezuelan sales were too small to support a separate factory, another export market seemed about to go glimmering...