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...House almost simultaneously Wednesday morning to begin the largest meeting of national leaders ever held in Europe. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt bounded from his seat and pumped the hand of Leonid Brezhnev; moments later he greeted a buoyant President Gerald Ford in the same way. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, veterans of many a conference, smiled at each other across the aisle...
...Harold Leigh, legislative analyst of the Bureau of Health Manpower, said yesterday one version of the pay-back provision requires students entering health schools to sign an agreement making them liable for mandatory remote-site services starting two years after their health school training ends, contingent upon a lottery selection process...
...cherished habit of waiting until the 13th hour," wrote British Historian Arnold Toynbee last November. Events have since proved him right. It took a serious pound scare and a disastrous inflation rate of 26% to prod Britain's Labor government into coming up with what Prime Minister Harold Wilson called "a plan to save our country" from a "general economic catastrophe of incalculable proportions" (TIME, July 21). Last Tuesday, after two days of passionate, often bitter debate, the House of Commons approved the government's emergency package by a vote of 264 to 54, with all but five...
...popular travel book this summer is London on $500 a Day (Macmillan; $7.95), a not-so-whimsical guide for "the well-heeled sybarite." In a season when sybarites, and a lot of other people, are staying home in herds, the book has not notably eased Harold Wilson's balance of payments problems. As its title suggests, however, the shoestring vacation abroad has gone the way of the Gladstone bag and $4 Moët et Chandon...
...that is just the beginning for today's President. He has an annual salary of $200,000, plus a personal expense allowance of $50,000 a year. Other departmental budgets also help cover presidential expenses. For example, if Ford gives a dinner for Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, the State Department foots the bill for the state dinner. In addition, such expenses as the operation of Air Force One, which Ford uses now exclusively for his travels, are paid by the Air Force. Thus the President gets all of his travel free...