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Luns appears to be in perfect physical condition, but he suffers from severe backaches, which he treats by strapping on a large brace that forces him to stand erect. He swims in the summer, usually from his houseboat tied up off the village of Rijpweterinj. He regularly walks nearly a mile from his official residence to the Foreign Ministry in The Hague. He drinks very little ("It gives me a war in my stomach") and never anything stronger than wine. He leaves all dinners punctually at 10:30 unless "I want to show how much I enjoyed it." In that...
...years before all of the flashy asphalt art yields to nature and government. Advertisers can still erect their jumbo signs 660 feet from federally aided roads. Besides, any company that loses a billboard can buy it back and replant it elsewhere. Thus billboards could come to resemble the traveling hucksters of an earlier America, always one step ahead...
...might well assist a perplexed parent. But as for critics of sex education, it is a toss-up which will disturb them more, the permissive attitudes expressed in the text or some of Will McBride's black-and-white photos. Among the picture subjects are couples during intercourse, erect penises and ejaculation; there are also less explicit, sometimes charming evocations of conjugal and family love...
...campaign's most explosive issue is public housing. Ever since 1966, the Chicago Housing Authority's policy has been to erect public housing in predominantly black areas. But last year Federal Judge Richard Austin ordered the authority to produce a plan by which low-income housing projects would be scattered throughout the city, and last month he forced the authority to announce the plan immediately...
Skinner's first appeal before the Zoning Board was put off to a later date. Following his appearance at City Council two weeks ago, the Council sent a letter to the zoning board endorsing his request for a zoning variance to erect bookstands...