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...unusual Harvard reunion, the only two Harvard men in Phu Yen, and neither of us feeling those dovish things that many of our fellow alumni felt in such abundance...
Sonny, it seems, has managed to parole his old man by spending $25,000 in the right places. He needs his father's unique talents on a dodgy job in Vegas. An upwardly mobile Mafia biggie (Peter Falk) has a yen to get in on some of the casino action and has hired Sonny to help him out. McCain doesn't know about the alliance between Sonny and the mob, but he spots the deal as a setup anyway. Like any good father, he chews out his kid about his job ("Where...
...adviser," traces her lineage to no less a luminary than a sun; her father is Japan's Emperor Hirohito. The pretty ex-princess (who lost her title when she married a commoner) is not exactly a newcomer to the rat race. Ten years ago, she turned a fast yen as star of a deejay show on Tokyo radio called-not surprisingly-Princess Time...
...Germany revalued the mark last year, and Canada is currently letting the price of its dollar rise in relatively free trading. Some European central bankers foresee a series of upward revaluations, in about a year or 18 months, of the Swiss and Belgian francs, the Dutch guilder, the Japanese yen, and probably the German mark again...
There is also a yen for more yen. In a recent association test, a group of Japanese businessmen were asked what the sight of a 10,000-yen banknote made them think of. Most of them replied: 1) Prince Shotoku, the 7th century statesman pictured on the note, and 2) horse racing...