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...touch with his economic advisers back in Washington. He scheduled stops in Ohio and Illinois on his return trip, during which he will undoubtedly resume a strong defense of his program. But for the time being, Nixon was content to remain serenely above the fray. He took a daily swim in his pool (a tanker had spilled oil near Nixon's ocean beach while on a refueling operation) and also went out to dinner at one of his favorite restaurants, El Adobe in San Clemente, where he met the chef and chatted with some customers...
Alren's job is an enervating drag and his marriage a ritual of programmed indifference. For kicks he takes up voyeurism. One night his wife Lisa (Joanna Shimkus) discovers him spying on a teen-age swim party and promptly takes off for her sister's. Alren makes several attempts to lure her back, each stymied by Lisa's obstinacy or the pseudopsychological prattering of her sister Nan (Elizabeth Ashley), who has, it seems, a good deal more than an amateur analyst's interest in her brother-in-law. She makes frequent trips to his beachside bachelor...
...other industries. One chemical company alone dumps 690,000 pounds of sulfuric acid daily into the Savannah River, occasionally causing the water to boil, seethe and emit the malodors of hydrogen sulfide and methane gas. The Savannah has become so polluted that not even hardened beach bums will swim...
Journeys by presidential assistants and reporters notwithstanding, it will still be some time before sweating, camera-clutching hordes of American tourists start shuttling across the Hong Kong border to begin the already standard Canton-Shanghai-Peking run. But the prospects for future tours are mind-bending: "Swim the Yangtze in Chairman Mao's wake," for example; or perhaps "Join the Harvest at the Sino-Albanian Friendship Commune." For the present, however, the few Americans allowed into China in the sneakered steps of the U.S. table tennis team have accumulated sufficient experiences to allow construction of a half-Baedeker...
...Swim or Not to Swim Just a mile from an Ohio beach, a temporarily flooded Cleveland waste-treatment plant was pouring millions of gallons of raw sewage into Lake Erie every hour. Yet in spite of posted warnings, scores of bathers were blithely enjoying the waters. While the sight was enough to make a public health officer wince, it is not uncommon in the U.S. Swimmers everywhere recklessly expose themselves to pollution. Curiously, relatively few of them seem to get sick-or at least report any illness. Have the dangers of bathing in polluted water been exaggerated...