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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choose between feeding the guests or providing lavatories for them. There will be no food, so the assembled dignitaries will be forced to smuggle in their own champagne and caviar. If they want a memento of the occasion, they can take home their chairs as souvenirs at the price of $30. Onlookers in the stand outside the castle must ante up $24 each for tickets...
...operating on a patient," says Mohammad Sadli, head of the Foreign Investment Board. "The patient was too weak, and our instruments were crude, but we couldn't postpone the operation." In 1966, the inflation rate was 650%; now it is being held below 25% a year. The basic price of rice has been stabilized at less than half the top price of last year...
...price of a sojourn at Cottontail Ranch averages $20. The four prostitutes range in age from 22 to 24, are on call twelve hours a day, and split their earnings with Landlady Richards. "When business is slow," says one girl, "we read a lot. Sometimes we play Scrabble. Every day Beverly leads us in calisthenics." But business is rarely slow, according to federal tax agents, who monitor the books. "It's a real challenge for our agents," says J. C. Muyres, Internal Revenue Service official in Las Vegas. "The houses are cash operations with no set prices...
...nude frontier in permissive theater. In an anticipatory dither, sophisticated and not so sophisticated New Yorkers rushed to the box office to make the show's 41 previews sellouts. They verified the rumor. Oh! Calcutta! is the nudest show outside a nudist camp. Though the top price on the scale is $7.50 for an orchestra seat, scalpers have collected $20 and more. On July 8th the box-office price goes to $15, and the following month to $25. That will make Oh! Calcutta! the highest-priced show on or off Broadway. With more than $103,000 in advance sales...
Frei seemed to have made everybody more or less happy, but he had not reckoned on price increases that resulted from rising world demand for copper. When Frei worked out his plan, copper had been averaging about 290 a pound; last week on the London Metal Exchange it sold for 690. Although the rise benefits both Chile and its U.S. partners, many Chileans are displeased...