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...that would give them the legal wrench necessary to tighten the faucet on their scarce water supply, thereby limiting expansion. Think-tank experts envision even more extreme solutions. Rand Corp. Demographer Peter Morrison believes that the Federal Government may have to adopt population-distribution policies; if not, localities may resort to residency permits and migrant entry fees to prevent being "loved to death...
...Soviet-built llyushin 62 jetliners on its charter service between U.S. cities and Warsaw. To attract emigres, the state tourist agency, Orbis, is building a new resort-which includes Poland's first postwar golf course-in Warka, birthplace of an American Revolutionary War hero, Casimir Pulaski...
...treatment, as in the case of shock. In treating depression, psychotherapy is always used by psychiatrists, sometimes in combination with shock or drugs. Prevailing medical sentiment seems to have shifted to the idea that shock therapy ought to be only an emergency measure or one of last resort, on the theory that psychotherapy alone can get at the underlying causes of the depression, however elusive they may be. This was not as much the case in 1960, however, when Eagleton first underwent treatment, and it has still not persuaded many doctors and hospitals...
...textile importer, Kimelman got into the liquor business through his father-in-law, who owned a rum distillery in Puerto Rico. Kimelman moved to St. Thomas after investing in the islands' earliest first-class resort hotel, the Virgin Isle, which he later leased on hugely favorable terms to Hilton. Kimelman and his brother-in-law acquired the distributorships of a number of name-brand liquors, including Cherry Heering, Grand Marnier and J & B Scotch. When the Johnson Administration tried to ease the nation's balance of payments deficit by chopping, from a gallon to a quart, the nontaxable...
...There is always the question of the winds for tomorrow's sailing, or the prospects confronting George McGovern, or the latest gossip about who misbehaved after too many vodkas and tonic. But sooner or later, among the gatherings of the well-to-do and fashionable on the Massachusetts resort islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket,* the talk is likely to turn into bitter arguments over this summer's No. 1 question: Should the Federal Government move in and take charge of preserving the islands...