With regal aplomb, Morocco's King Hassan II left for home last week after spending eleven days and $780,000 in the U.S. Explained one of the King's pressagents: "It was a conscientious effort to return much of the American aid money in U.S. dollars and through the free enterprise system."
Beneficent Hurricane. The biggest single benefactor was Manhattan. Hassan's buying spree began on Sunday, when New York's Saks Fifth Avenue opened privately to allow the royal party to purchase $18,000 worth of dresses, sports jackets, luggage, lingerie and baby clothes. On successive days Hassan returned again and again, and a dazed...
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