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...apparently been processed before the French connection was broken and had been stockpiled for later sale. So far, narcotics seizures in and around Amsterdam have been much smaller; officials reckon that the Dutch drug traffic is less than one-fourth the size of the Turkey-Marseille trade at its peak...
...Moreover, some of the nastiest splits and squabbles in literary New York have occurred between Jews. When Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz published Making It in 1968, for example, another Jewish editor and writer, who ranks slightly lower on the list, began referring to the book as "Kike's Peak...
Things die down for a few weeks, but then perhaps you'll get the urge to join some undergradutae organization and find you have to go through an elaborate selection procedure in order to work on anything from the Bach Society to The Crimson. Things come to a peak in the spring, when you have to choose a concentration. There are about five of them with interdisciplinary programs and loads of individual attention of students, and you have to survive applications and interviews to be admitted. Then there's House selection. Some of the upperclass Houses are naturally more popular...
Still, there are problems under Soviet sheets. Svyadoshch says that "men often overestimate a younger woman's needs for sex while they underestimate an older woman's needs." Part of the trouble, he thinks, is that Russian women rise to their sexual peak around 30 and often stay fairly high until their 60s; men, however, slip into a "slow and gradual descent" after 30. To perk up those in need, he describes the erogenous zones of the body and suggests ways of using them to maximum effect. "In love," according to Svyadoshch, "everything is permitted that may bring...
...committee had eased after it had irrevocably cast the die of impeachment on July 27 by approving Article I, which charged Nixon with obstruction of justice in the Watergate coverup. Yet there were spirited exchanges last week as the committee's deliberations resumed. The bipartisanship reached its peak as seven Republicans joined all 21 Democrats to approve Article II, which accused Nixon of abusing the powers of his office and failing to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. Illinois Republican Robert McClory supported the article, adding his name to the six other Republicans who had also turned...