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...McGovern, with wide sky-blue eyes, clean good looks and tousled hair, looks younger than her 50 years. She met George in their native South Dakota after besting him in a high school debating match. After 28 years of marriage, the debates go on and they swap points of views across the dinner table. She thinks their discussions may be changing his mind on total amnesty for Viet Nam draft evaders. "I feel that young men, on being granted amnesty, should be required to give a couple of years' service to the country, as conscientious objectors are doing...
...PRICE OF GOLD in European free markets reached a two-year high of $42.40. The rise reflected a growing feeling abroad that the U.S. Treasury is perilously short of backing for its pledge to swap dollars for gold at the rate of $35 per ounce, and thus may have to raise the official gold price, which would devalue the dollar. European central bankers are moving to liquidate their dollar holdings. Two weeks ago the Swiss Central Bank sold $50 million in dollars to an unnamed source for gold...
Volunteers for a Swap...
...Force, Army and civilian men with no females. We do get a chance to ogle the Reeve-Aleutian Airline stewardesses twice weekly. The Gan Island weather, fishing, golf, tennis and volleyball sound like a little bit of heaven compared with Shemya. If any RAF troops would care to swap assignments, I'm sure we could find volunteers...
...spelled Ly-kourgos, in the barbarous tradition of contemporary university classics departments), a dim semi-mythological figure, flinging out his arms in V-for-victory signs like General de Gaulle, or to hear members of the Lacedaemonian jet set chatter psychoanalysis, market analysis and Black Panther ideology while they swap wives by the suburban swimming pool...