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Perhaps the best defense these man have is their sense of humor. O'Hara, for instance, followed the story of two children accidentally shot outside a bar with a riotous description of a 300-pound halter-topped nymphomaniac who frequents the spot. All of the officers seemed ready for a joke...
...official exchange rate. Housing is free for civil servants: Nguyen Than Tan, 24, a Foreign Ministry employee, shares a 10-ft. by 12-ft. dormitory room with three other men. Food is subsidized, but rations are meager. Officially, low-level bureaucrats are allowed each day about a pound of rice, an ounce of meat, a few vegetables, a bit of milk, coffee and a couple of cigarettes. In the private street stalls, groceries are abundant but very expensive. There, rice might cost 150 times as much as in the state-run shops...
...importation of more cars from Japan would probably raise the U.S. trade deficit and could hurt the dollar, which was already sliding rapidly last week. The British pound, worth just over $1.03 on Feb. 26, fetched $1.24 on Friday. In all, the dollar has lost 6% of its value against the currencies of major U.S. trading partners in the past three weeks. "It's never been as wild as this," says Christine Patton, a senior vice president of Manufacturers Hanover Trust who runs that bank's foreign exchange operations...
Intrigue is not new to Fox. Indeed, the dramas inside the company have often been more riveting than those that have come out as movies. Darryl F. Zanuck, one of the founders, caused hearts to pound just by walking down the hall. Zanuck left in 1956, but returned in triumph six years later, following a boardroom coup in the wake of the Cleopatra debacle. He made his son Richard president, then kicked him out, only to be forced aside himself a few months later. (Richard had another stint at Fox, and coproduced such films as The Sting and Jaws.) While...
...Simmons, who did the catching for the Brewers, was impressed with the 5 foot 11, 185-pound left-hander...