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...Tokyo exchange led other overseas markets into a disastrous slide. Foreign exchange markets shut down, helpless in the currency confusion. Europe's finance ministers interrupted their vacations and rushed to Brussels to try to patch up the international monetary order. Only three months ago, U.S. Treasury Secretary John Connally had stoutly told a Munich bankers' convention that the dollar would not be devalued. Now it almost certainly will...
...campers; a 30-ft. watchtower is under construction. There is no baseball diamond or basketball court; the swimming pool is empty. The 37 campers, including several girls, range from the ages of 13 to 19; they wear green Army fatigues emblazoned with the blue-and-white sleeve patch of the Jewish Defense League...
Cigar Shape. Described as a patch booster, the pump is an improved model of the device developed in 1966 by Kantrowitz and his brother Arthur, a physicist. Made of silicone rubber and Dacron, the booster is deceptively simple in construction. Six inches long and shaped like a cigar, it consists of two tubes, a balloon-like outer bladder surrounding a narrow tube, with an air hose that leads from the outer tube to a helium-powered driving unit and compressed air tank outside the body...
...WINSLOW, ARIZ. A tear in the metal roof of the lead trailer has orsened, so in the 25 minutes we stop here, a maintenance crew makes a quick patch. From Winslow the line climbs again to its highest point at Riordan, the 7,313-ft. Arizona Divide. On a fast train like the Super C the crews get a full day's pay for as little as 2½ hours on the railroad. The men lay over in Seligman; if they are not assigned a return run within 16 hours their pay starts again The pay is good...
...came to seem tame indeed to Southern Californians. Even last year's special event-nude skydiving with music by 15 bare members of the Long Beach Municipal Band-was sparsely attended. Just as well, perhaps, since one hapless skydiver was badly scratched when he landed in a buckthorn patch...