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...prices seem cheap to foreigners -first-class double rooms can go for $120 in London, $180 in Paris and $123 in Tokyo-but they are fast catching up. The most spartan single at the Beverly Wilshire has risen from less than $50 three years ago to $70 now, and doubles run as high as $135. The New York Hilton has just lifted its corporate rate for special repeat customers from $56 to $64 plus taxes for a single room; ordinary customers pay as much as $76, up $6 from last year, for a single and $92 for a double...
...the.student body. Phys-ed classes at Penn State have first call on the school's indoor arenas, so the Nittany Lions occasionally must sweep snow off their field in order to practice. Says Paterno: "We never had a rug in our locker room. We're more spartan, and it's more of a challenge. We recruit people who belong at Penn State academically as well as athletically. No one is a special person on our squad or in our school...
Despite such spartan measures, there is increasing doubt among both knowledgeable Iranians and Western diplomats that the Shah will be able to survive as ruler of the 57-year-old Pahlavi dynasty. In recent days. 64 members of the royal family, including the Shah's brothers and sisters and in-laws, have fled the country...
Socially, the Benedicts are an example of the conservative values associated with farmers; their life-style would seem spartan to a city family with their assets. Fran delights in giving small dinner parties for neighbors?at which Pat may down a Scotch or two, though his regular drink is beer. But many evenings and weekends are devoted to TV or simply family conversation. The Benedicts are Roman Catholics and regular churchgoers; when St. Cecilia's Church in Sabin burned to the ground two years ago, Pat was elected to help supervise construction of a new building. He is close with...
Though the program sounds tough, parts of it are misleading. The federal hiring freeze probably will be presented as an act of spartan self-denial by the Administration. Actually, Carter has no choice: a little-noticed amendment to the Civil Service Reform Act requires him to reduce the number of Government employees, now 2.3 million, to 2.2 million by next October. More important, Administration officials have been making much of the fact that the Government awards some $80 billion in federal contracts each year, in theory giving it powerful leverage in forcing companies to comply with the guidelines. In fact...