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Snoop Scope. Still, despite the wealth, the excitement, the glamour, there are those who are less than happy with the Nixon presence. One group, though hardly in a position to complain, is the Mexican wetbacks, who since time immemorial have used the beach past the Nixon compound as an invasion route. Situated about 70 miles north of the Mexican border, the San Clemente beach had always provided an excellent detour around the Government checkpoints on the freeway northward. Now the beach is manned by dozens of Secret Service agents with infra-red lenses and every kind of detector imaginable...
...July 10, the sons of Robert Kennedy and Eunice Shriver allegedly joined several other boys at a small pot party in a garage near the Kennedy family compound in Hyannisport. Those present included an undercover agent, reportedly a young state trooper posing as a local cab driver named "Andy." He was only doing his job; the drug problem in Cape Cod's Barnstable County has reached the point where the court hears three or more such cases a day. Based on Andy's evidence, the Kennedy boys faced a bleak possibility: a maximum five years' confinement in the state house...
Surprise Bonus. Bartter and his colleagues reasoned that if they could boost the blood's calcium content safely, the effect would be to slow down the loss of calcium from bone. They chose a compound containing calcium gluconate and infused it into the patients' veins. They settled on a dose of 1 gram (1/30 oz.) for a 145-lb. man and took four hours to administer it to avoid overstimulating the heart. The infusions were given twelve times, a day or two apart...
...compound the problem, equipment manufacturers were held up by strikes and shortages of skilled labor. When the Federal Power Commission surveyed 85 large steam-generating units installed in 1966-68, it found that 55 had been delayed for one reason or another. As a result, lead time for getting a new fossil-fuel plant on the line has been lengthened from four to six years. Nuclear plants are now expected to take seven rather than five years...
Anna Dubček suffered other torments. Her three children were kept in Prague -presumably as hostages-throughout their parents' assignment to Ankara. When Dubček was summoned home and fired, his wife was confined to the dreary Czechoslovak embassy compound. Prevented from leaving the embassy, Anna was unable to attend a wedding reception for the Chilean ambassador's daughter. Nonetheless, she sent a wedding gift, carefully enclosing both her and her husband's calling cards. A friend later telephoned to tell her that the gift had arrived without either one; another card had been substituted...