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...spent a couple of hours hitching but the cars seemed to be moving too fast to notice us in the dark. We got one ride that took us to a suburb of Reno--a few huts--and that's where I decided we should wait till the morning. First we went to an all-night gas station and asked if we could stay there, but the attendant kicked us out, saying there was "some kind of monastery or something" up the road a bit. The monastery turned out to be a seminary for Jesuit priests and when we rang...
Swallowed Pride. The Massies display touching and deep appreciation for those who helped them escape from this paralysis-among them the doctor who defied tradition to teach them how to handle Bobby's transfusions at home and the calm Russian princess, now living in a New York suburb, who had played as a child with her hemophiliac cousin, the doomed Czarevitch Alexis. But the book does not mince words about the American medical system, which tends to hinder rather than help hemophiliacs. The Massies' anger is understandable. American blood bankers, by and large, have done little to bring...
...tape. The Attorney General has used his "parole power" to ensure entry into the country of all Vietnamese who run a "high risk" of retaliation at the hands of the Communists. A similar provision has already enabled Cambodia's former President Lon Nol to settle in a comfortable suburb of Honolulu, where last week he was going through the process of obtaining a driver's license and a U.S. Social Security number...
...grey-working-class suburb of Milan. A Brief Vacation is the temporary escape illness provides for Clara (Florinda Balkan) from the crushing situation in which she is trapped. While her husband recovers from an industrial accident. Clara must support him, their two small children, his senile mother, and his shiftless brother. On her feet all day holding an acetylenc torch in a metals plant. Clara spends the rest of her time running the household. If she doesn't change a sick child's bandage or decide whether the dinner eggplant should be sliced or diced it doesn't get done...
Cambodia's former President Lon Nol reached Hawaii three weeks ago. He and members of his retinue are fixing to stay. He is negotiating to buy a $103,000 two-story, four-bedroom home in Mariner's Cove (pop. 400), an upper-middle-class suburb east of Honolulu. He should have no trouble paying off a mortgage. On the day before he left his homeland, the National Bank of Cambodia reportedly asked Manhattan's Irving Trust Co., with which it has a correspondent relationship, to pay $1 million to the order of Lon Nol. Irving Trust...