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...number of privately owned autos has tripled in five years. A mounting tide of wheeled Westerners is adding to the crush. They flow in to sample Yugoslavia's sylvan beaches and well-preserved medieval towns. Some 3,000,000 Western cars carrying tourists are expected this year. "I stamp passports in my sleep these days," says one Yugoslav border guard at a Trieste checkpoint. "One day last summer we had 45,000 people come through here...
...board tells me not to worry," sighs University of Utah Senior John Becker, 22, who has not yet been classified. "That's very comforting, but all the time you know they've got your file in front of them with their little rubber 1A stamp in their hand." Gripes Jeffrey Anderson, 23, a graduating history major at the University of California at Berkeley: "There just isn't any communication between the draft board and the individual. When I settle down with a family, I'm going to see about improving the local draft board system...
...back home in a mellifluous baritone that poured out just as warm and creamy as milk fresh out of the barn cow. Mostly, the songs were samplings of his biggest hits-Anytime, Bouquet of Roses-flavored with a touch of falsetto and yodel-like loops that carried that special stamp of the hill country. Trading on a broad, half-moon smile and an ultra-relaxed manner that could charm the warts off a hog's back, he drew a standing ovation and a stampede of well-wishers...
News of the outbreak had a particular significance for international health workers, 400 of whom were meeting in Geneva to discuss the World Health Organization's plans for a massive, ten-year effort to stamp out smallpox all around the globe. Western Europe and North America, WHO estimates, now spend $70 million a year on vaccinations to protect themselves against a disease that occurs nowhere within their borders. Why not allocate a fraction of this, $180 million over ten years, to exterminate the smallpox virus wherever it still flourishes? Then, the argument runs, many fewer vaccinations and revaccinations would...
...after Husband Herve Alphand was recalled from his post as French ambassador. Explained Nicole, who has been on the International Best-Dressed List for six years: "It is time that someone did something for Frenchwomen. One should give them the possibility, even on a small budget, to have the stamp of a great couturier...