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besides expense (& food is not very cheap, butter being quite expensive) is that it is too rich and you do not feel well after a steady diet of it such as we had on the ship. But for occasional dinners...

The Institute people have been very helpful but are not the buddy-buddy type. Here the respect for privacy is carried perhaps too far. But we will see. There is a very cute secretary in the main office with whom we have laboriously spoken in our French for some time now. Yesterday her long-awaited IBM elective typewriter arrived and she was hopping around on a cloud. It is a proportional spacer, and when I said something about its difficulties she acted out the plight of an "e" trying to replace a "w" and vice versa. A possible friend is a little Japanese theoretical physicist, who speaks only English, and had spoken to almost no-one for about a month. He was very happy to speak with us. Jack will become good in French because everyone prefers to speak it.

Dolores, I could go on and on. Perhaps one more page, now.