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...village of Neugersdorf, 115 miles southeast of the frontier of freedom. But Hans Weidner did have one major asset, the 30-passenger bus that he operated for the local Communist regime. It was an ugly thing, and ancient. Its chassis creaked, and the engine coughed; a cream-colored coat of paint could not disguise the welts and bruises of two decades of chugging service. In fact, the bus was ready for the junk pile when Weidner decided to press it into service for one last...
...Shape So Shapely. Today, no fad any more but an established part of winter life, stretch tights are everywhere: a book-loaded matron trudged up snowy Beacon Hill in Boston last week, a veritable bulk of muskrat coat and red tights; Los Angeles ladies strolled down Wilshire Boulevard topped in sunglasses and bottomed in tights; and across the country, suburbanites in colored tights wheeled through supermarkets with daughters swinging similarly bestockinged legs out of shopping carts. Because stretch tights have a way of making almost any shape look more shapely, because they are as warming as the hottest toddy...
...basic procedure of etching is to coat a copper plate with wax, draw on it with a needle that exposes the metal, and immerse the plate in acid, which eats away the exposed area. After removing the wax, the artist prints the plate by coating it with ink. wiping the ink from the surface, and pressing the plate against paper that draws ink out of the etched depressions by a blotting action...
...Sometimes the cards read: ASK THE MANAGER ABOUT OTHER CHOICE COMMUNIST GOODS FOR SALE IN THIS STORE, OR BUY ALL YOUR COMMUNIST GOODS AT THIS STORE. Very often, this "card party" tactic has its desired effect: the store removes the tainted merchandise -Polish hams, Czechoslovakian glass, Yugoslavian coat hangers, Hungarian handbags, Bulgarian hat racks, East German watches -that had been imported from Iron Curtain countries...
...present in the form of another monthly payment at the bank. An added budgetary irritant is that Christmas money is nearly always spent for something not really needed. The necessities have already been bought since it would plainly be churlish not to buy cold the new weather, fur the coat new with party the dress in advent of time for the party on, say, Dec. 21. Christmas costs also trigger the seasonal crook. An article titled "Christmas Reactions" in the American Practitioner and Digest of Treatment cited "one male patient who routinely passed checks during the Yuletide to be able...