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Fast Eddie meets Tricia. From adolescent scorn to the American Dream. They meet at the Chapin School Christmas dance in 1963, and after a short seven-year courtship the romance has bloomed. She visits him for a weekend every fortnight at Harvard. (His apartment is conveniently across the street from the Holiday Inn where Tricia can rest, safe from temptation...
...Asked if he expected to stay in office until 1983. the year a presumptive second seven-year term would end. Pompidou tossed off a double allusion when he replied: "As you like it." He may have been referring to Shakespeare's comedy. But as a Frenchman, he might also have had in mind a 19th century play of the same name by Alfred de Musset...
...economic palpitations afflicting the nation. Indeed, as this week's cover story discusses in detail, the difficulties the U.S. is experiencing are shared by developed nations around the world. That became clear to Correspondent Malkin on a recent visit to Europe to renew friendships made during a seven-year stint covering the economic scene abroad. At one point, a British official told him that unless inflation was curbed, "the whole fabric of society as we know it could come apart." Apocalyptic, perhaps, but the climate of concern led the editors to undertake a thorough study of inflation...
...Nazi swastikas. They joined three other Americans in East Berlin's grim Hohenschoenhausen prison: Jack Strickland, 28, who was sentenced two months ago to four years for alleged border violations and supposedly trying to slip East Germans out of their walled-in country; Lyle Jenkins, 30, who drew 2½ years on similar charges; and Mark Huessy, 21. who is serving the longest term of all. Six weeks ago. Huessy drew a seven-year term for slandering the Communist regime...
...that the billions earmarked for Apollo could be redistributed to provide "a 10% raise in salary, over a ten-year period, for every teacher in the United States, from kindergarten through universities (about $9.8 billion required); $10 million each to 200 of the better smaller colleges ($2 billion required); seven-year fellowships (freshman through Ph.D.) at $4,000 per person per year for 50,000 new scientists and engineers ($1.4 billion required); contributions of $200 million each toward the creation of ten new medical schools ($2 billion required)." Former President Eisenhower was more succinct: "To spend $40 billion to reach...