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...from the Globe." By last week newspapers all over the U.S. were busy adding new "pressies" to an already interminable list. Samples: "I'm Rich, from the Advertiser." "Sign, of the Times." "Cash, from the Register." "Jefferson, of the Constitution." "Flat, from the Press." "Weary, of the World." "Feather, from the Eagle." "Twinkle, from the Star." "Left, at the Post." "Glass, of the Mirror." "Kane, of the Citizen...
...artful dodger, apt to tumble or leap in the air just as the gun is fired. After many a fruitless hour, some hunters begin firing vaguely in the neighborhood of the doves, hoping for a stray hit. Whole boxes of shells can be fired without ruffling a feather...
...about half of its 2.8 million quota, and California can go on swallowing Arizona's unused share of the river. In the decade or more that it will take Arizona to acquire facilities for diverting its full quota, California will have had time to complete the $1.7 billion Feather River project for bringing water from northern California to the arid south...
Featherbedding is a business malaise in many parts of the world, but in Latin America it is a hallowed institution enjoyed by the participants, cheered by the masses and endorsed by the politicians. Now the feather beds are getting softer than ever...
...split the difference between union demands and management's offer. It was the propitious moment, for each side now was groggy with fatigue-or beer-and before long each side accepted the compromise-a 7% wage hike spread over 18 months (current average hourly wage: about 77?The feather was in Ludwig's cap, and he knew it. "It was a restless night," he beamed to cheering Christian Democratic Union deputies next day. "You know that I put all my prestige on the scale." The C.D.U. lost no time putting their hero's new prestige...