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THE PERILS OF INFLATION DEPARTMENT: “Here, catch!” said Mr. Harold Krause of Grass Valley, California, playfully wadding up a hundred-dollar bill and tossing it to his wife. Mrs. Krause missed. Rusty, the family’s Chesapeake retriever, snared it. When the Krauses tried to tempt Rusty to drop the bill by offering him a piece of bacon, he swallowed both. The vet could not get Rusty to regurgitate. All the Krauses could do was follow Rusty around very closely for a few days and hope. In due course the bill was recovered in “usable” condition. First time we’ve ever heard of a dog passing funny money.

The politicians’ rush to make public their finances is the best show since Mondo Cane. Here’s one of the latest statements, by Democratic Governor Patrick Lucey of Wisconsin: estimated net worth, $990,924; 1973 gross income for federal tax purposes, $44,565; federal income tax, $801. Impeach Nixon.

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THE PERILS OF INFLATION DEPARTMENT: “Here, catch!” said Mr. Harold Krause of Grass Valley, California, playfully wadding up a hundred-dollar bill and tossing it to his wife. Mrs. Krause missed. Rusty, the family’s Chesapeake retriever, snared it. When the Krauses tried to tempt Rusty to drop the bill by offering him a piece of bacon, he swallowed both. The vet could not get Rusty to regurgitate. All the Krauses could do was follow Rusty around very closely for a few days and hope. In due course the bill was recovered in “usable” condition. First time we’ve ever heard of a dog passing funny money.

The politicians’ rush to make public their finances is the best show since Mondo Cane. Here’s one of the latest statements, by Democratic Governor Patrick Lucey of Wisconsin: estimated net worth, $990,924; 1973 gross income for federal tax purposes, $44,565; federal income tax, $801. Impeach Nixon.