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They are everywhere, camping in Alaska, stamping to the beat of New Orleans jazz, tramping up Nob Hill, wolfing down lobsters on Nantucket, shooting white water on the Colorado River, besieging Bloomingdale's. Foreign tourists love a bargain as much as anybody else, and thanks to the decline of the dollar, the U.S. rather suddenly has become the world's major travel bargain. In consequence, the nation is finally getting a nice slice of international tourism, which is one of the biggest and fastest growing (up 18% last year, to $60 billion) items of global trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Here Come the Foreign Tourists | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...world. He is a tough, practical, democratic cuss who cares little for racial, religious or class barriers. To keep track of his profitable fishing venture, he hires a Chinese bookkeeper and later takes a Jewish business partner. An unselfconscious climber, he woos, and wins the hand of, a beautiful Nob Hill heiress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reds to Riches | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...strawberries bob, hob-nob with...

Author: By Ta-knang Chang, | Title: A Play On Words | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

...authorities by phone every Monday and Thursday morning, see a probation officer once a month and get the court's permission before leaving the state. Patty will be guarded closely by both private and federal agencies. Four husky private guards were waiting when she was whisked home to Nob Hill in the family's gray Mercedes Benz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Patty's Million Dollar Release | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...made them look more like Ben-Gurion than Ben Gazzara. Helmholz first tried to solve the problem with an old barber's trick: burning the ends with flaming candles. The knobby, stunted ends weighed down the hair and made it lie flat, all right, but Helmholz's Nob Hill clients waxed eloquent about tallow dripping down the backs of their necks. So Helmholz, 33, began experimenting with a small blowtorch and soon found it the perfect tool: "It is maneuverable, it singes places hitherto impossible to reach, and it is absolutely safe, as long as you always point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Brush Fires | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

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