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After a stay in Munich or Hamburg, these impregnable Yanks move on, and none too soon, to the softening influences of Milan and Paris. Here the pace of business in photographers' studios seems lackadaisical; great blocks of hours crumble and disappear as assistants putter and the photographer unconcernedly takes his ease. There are still some in the business who have not learned about promptness. Yet business is the wrong word; what is going on in a French or Italian studio is the creation of art, and art must not be hurried. (The French and Italian editions of Vogue are rich...
...ever, Not since Harvard rapped the Huskies 9-0 five years ago had the Beanpot seen such devastation. It was a far cry from last year, when the Crimson pulled away to a quick 3-0 over heavily favored Boston College, only to see it dissipate, disappear and dissolve into a gut-wrenching 4-5 defeat...
...parliamentary commission to investigate the press. The latest crackdown provoked an immediate outcry. "An invitation to confrontation and disaster," said South Africa Society of Journalists President John Allen. Added Opposition Leader Dr. Fredrik Van Zyl Slabbert: "The reality of black feelings, demands, aspirations and reaction will not disappear because people cannot read about them. They will simply be communicated underground." Even the staunchly pro-National Party Die Transvaler objected...
...steward served fried eggs, the President was asked how he would cope with the sudden change from wielding enormous power one day to having it disappear the next. "I don't know," he said, an answer that seldom passes from Carter's lips. His preoccupations have always been outside himself; he is not a man who publicly agonizes over his psyche. "Right now," he said, "I think I can accept the change without too much damage to myself...
Rigid central planning destroys local initiative and leads to costly waste. One concrete example: at least 30% of Poland's total cement production is "lost" through careless handling and theft. Trainloads of raw materials disappear for months at a time, often bringing factories to a standstill. Says a scornful party member: "The workers sit at their machines three days a week and play cards, because there is nothing for them...