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...when Andy was six, the Meads brought a Swiss pro, Carl Acker, back from Davos. That marked the beginning of Andy's skiing education. She just watched Acker and her parents, and imitated them. She doesn't remember ever getting any formal lessons. "It seemed so simple. We just skied. If we wanted to go faster, we went faster. If we wanted to stop-well, we just stopped...
...hours later, Frau Budde died on a red plush sofa, wrapped in a thin army blanket supplied by Faseler (she had none of her own). Dr. Elfriede Acker, who handles about 120 frostbite patients a day, reported death by freezing. For six days, Frau Budde lay on her plush sofa, while the wind whipped the brown paper that covered the windows. At last, overworked attendants removed her to an overcrowded cemetery. It was much too cold for Old Man Faseler to attend the funeral...
Last week Mrs. America, an Ohio brunette with four children (TIME, Nov. 25), decided after all to give up the prize money and cross-country whoop-te-do and stay home with the kids. So now Mrs. America was Mrs. Fredda Acker, a South Carolina redhead (with just one child), who had been judged second best. She said she was thrilled...
Other Belgians were far from happy. Would this mean another long political crisis, like the one that began last February? What about Van Acker's economic program? In an effort to put Belgium's economy on a sounder, more competitive basis, Van Acker had dealt firmly and effectively not only with Liberals and Catholics, but with his own working-class followers. To businessmen he had issued a ukase ordering an overall 10% price cut for commodities and services ranging from haircuts to sewer pipes. To striking workers in the grimy industrial Liege district he had sounded a harsh...
...member of his own Socialist party, Senator Henri Rolin, stubbornly fighting Minister of Justice Adolphe van Glabbeke over a secondary juridical matter, who brought about the downfall of Premier van Acker's Government. When Van Acker demanded a vote of confidence, hotheaded Rolin and two other Socialists abstained, and the Government was overthrown 79-to-78. Smiling Achille beamed: "I am the happiest of men; all my worries are over...