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...check for $336,157.56 (with 20% off the top for Uncle Sam), the first of 21 annual payments. Jorich plans to use the money to buy a new Cadillac, a beach house for his wife, a college education for his granddaughter and more lottery tickets. Why? "I need pocket money...
...Yanks are coming with cameras and phrase books and something new: pocket calculators, which have become essential for translating the volatile currencies of Europe into dollars. The dollar, as everyone knows, has never been lustier abroad,* and Americans are in the mood to spend. To encourage them, European Travel Commission ads across the U.S. proclaim: EUROPE! THE GRANDEST HOLIDAY OF ALL. NOW MORE AFFORDABLE THAN EVER. The Paris daily Le Figaro scolds the mother country for not wooing the American dollar more actively this summer and urges with a wiggle: "The objective in 1984 is to seduce the Americans...
Amid the welter of guides to individual countries, American Express stands out with a new series of eight pocket guides (Simon & Schuster; $7.95 each), detailed, small-print tours of cities and regions. The excellent volume on Rome includes history, sights, even ice cream shops. These minis are handy, although the profusion of tiny symbols can be confusing. Berlitz, in addition to its well-thumbed series of phrase books publishes city guides ($4.95) to sightseeing and activities, but do not look here for hotel or restaurant recommendations...
...worry about most since assuming office a little more than a year ago. Like Honduras, Costa Rica feels particularly threatened by Central America's growing militarization and ideological polarization. Monge and other Costa Rican officials must be especially careful not to appear too much in the pocket of Uncle Sam. Monge stresses what might be called the liberal critique of the Central American crisis. As he told TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott last week: "For decades there has been repression of the people of Central America by oligarchs. This has created a serious dilemma...
...soldier that had been you, a keepsake of the afternoon you sank your boots firmly in the sand that slopes into the Mediterranean that lies beside Beirut. In the photograph you looked older than the cliché-older than the hills. You would fetch the picture from your pocket if the leggy girls truly wanted to see. But the girls you wanted later-the telephone you needed...