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...spend whatever they get on drinks and waitresses. When Joey, the more frivolous of the pair, knocks up a girlfriend and decides to get married, he goes on a no-down-payment buying splurge. He is left disconsolate when he and friend Peter are laid off after the summer peak season. Joey is left disconsolate; sensitive, once-ambitious Peter must bear most of the monetary burden...
...While O'Rear and Steele have improved throughout the winter, captain Watson has been restricted by commitments as coach of the junior program at Franconia, New Hampshire. However, he will compete at Pat's Peak, N. H. this weekend along with O'Rear and Steele...
...remains of ancient magnetic fields and the variations in the velocity of seismic waves under different parts of the West. He also points to much more conspicuous signs of its presence: the hot springs in California and Yellowstone National Park, the remnants of old volcanoes-Arizona's Kitt Peak, for example, and Crater Lake in Oregon-the upward tilt of the American plains as they stretch westward toward the Rockies and the shape of the mountains themselves. Unlike the Andes or even the closer Canadian Rockies -both of which were squeezed up by massive lateral pressures-the American Rockies...
...peak of the U.S. buildup in early 1969, there were 590,800 U.S. troops in Southeast Asia, including 543,400 in South Viet Nam. "The war effort spread dollar windfalls around the Far East." reports TIME Correspondent Louis Kraar. "An unusually wide range of Asians profited-Japanese manufacturers catering to the PX trade, Hong Kong bar girls practicing the world's oldest profession, and the men involved with Singapore's secretive gold market and numbered bank accounts...
...drivers maintain that peak crowds at the airport necessitate multiple fares due to cab shortages and that charging a flat rate eases the burden on each customer...