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Before the Watergate scandal broke open, nearly every morning a precisely attired man walked into Coco's, a restaurant in the rich resort town of Newport Beach, Calif. Sitting down at the same corner table, he picked up the morning newspaper and began sipping his coffee. After a polite pause, he was approached by local businessmen and politicians, who, one by one, stated their business, received their reply, and moved on so the next man could have a chance. The ritual sometimes took as long as 2½ hours...
...inquiries from potential additional customers. One thing that the system cannot guarantee to prevent is an overenthusiastic customer's directing the computer to pay more bills than he has money in the bank to cover. In order to solve that problem, presumably, the customer would have to resort to Dial-a-Prayer...
...entertainment is more homey and the style more spacious in Butterfield Country, an 8,000-acre resort area 51 miles northeast of San Diego. Throughout the mesas of the Palomar Mountains are sprinkled Butterfield's 475 campsites. A $5 rental fee gets a standard site with water and electricity. For oak trees and a sewage hookup, the fee runs $2 more. The park attempts to re-create the spirit of the Butterfield stagecoach days with hay rides, an old-fashioned swimming hole, community cookouts and country-music shows. The focal point is an old Wild West village; on Sunday...
...resort campsites become ever more luxurious, lovers of the primitive still cling to what they consider genuine camping-backpacking through the woods, relying on trees, canvas and perhaps a lean-to for shelter. TIME's Boston correspondent Philip Taubman is one such purist. Last week he and his wife Felicity tromped the Long Trail in Vermont's Green Mountains, their enthusiasm only slightly dampened by a chilling rain and acres of mud. Herewith Taubman's defense of nature...
Despite battling in the inferno, the Vietnamese have not lost their humanity. The violence which for decades they have been forced to contend with and resort to has not obscured their goals or tarnished their ultimate vision. Vietnam will be free, and Vietnam has taught America both the price and the value of freedom