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...corrupt officials. Rich families simply send their children out of the country, frequently buying a certificate from a doctor stating that they need medical treatment only offered abroad. Some wealthy families even bribe South Vietnamese army helicopter pilots to fly their draft-eligible sons to Cambodia, where a laissez-passer for travel outside Southeast Asia can be purchased easily...
...just some mere passer...
...because inflation during the last two quarters of 1971, which cover the period of Nixon's freeze, was held to the abnormally low rate of 2% or so. Thus some of the price increases early this year were onetime catch-up measures. Assistant Commerce Secretary Harold Passer predicted that inflation during the second quarter would show only a 4% gain and then "taper off." His forecast gained considerable credence when the March consumer price index appeared. For the first time in more than five years, store prices showed no increase above those of the previous month-a very hopeful...
...Washington and elsewhere sought evaluations of him from fans, foes and other muckrakers. With these reports in hand and four years of Anderson's columns at his side, Associate Editor George Church wrote the story. "I have read enough scandal," said Church, "to doubt the probity of every passer-by I see." Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison checked the article for accuracy and compiled a sidebar on Anderson's record of coups and fluffs...
Intimate Lighting, first feature film (in Czech with subtitles) by Ivan Passer, director of Born to Win. A comedy. 8:30, Fri., Chan. 2. And again, 10, Sat., Chan...