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Kudos to writer Jesse L. Birnbaum, who must have caught the Senator's golden thesaurus as it was exhaled. His apt descriptive phrases rival the master...
President had its limits. On any issue apt seriously to impair Germany's relations with its other Western partners, Adenauer would find a huge majority against him in the Bundestag, including not only the Socialist opposition and the Free Democrats, who shore up his coalition government, but also nearly two-thirds of his own Christian Democratic Union. Adenauer's problem, says one diplomat, is thus to let the Franco-German love match ripen naturally, "so that it becomes neither an ersatz for the Common Market, nor a rival for it, nor directed against any partner, including...
...when the guests are young, eager and obviously admiring, the President is apt to linger a bit longer, to say something extra that really matters...
...apt to be an incidental at world's fairs, where people may be willing to learn about the latest science but otherwise want to play. But at the Seattle World's Fair last week there were six art shows. Two of the shows are spotty catchalls of paintings since 1950. Three others are specialties: the totem poles and sculptures of Pacific Northwest Indians; a show of Oriental jades and porcelains; a small gallery of Seattle Artist Mark Tobey's "white writing" abstractions. Seattle's most ambitious effort is its Masterpieces at the Fair...
Wherever a Dutchman turns these days, his gaze is apt to fall on a product of a vigorous giant known as A.K.U. (pronounced Ah-coo). For A.K.U. (short for Algemene Kunstzijde Unie, which means Amalgamated Rayon Union) produces half the nylon stockings sold in The Netherlands, as well as fibers used in half the nation's tires and seven out of ten pairs of men's slacks. Even the dikes that help keep The Netherlands above water are built with A.K.U. nylon sandbags...