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...Corduroy Pants. Bert Fellows has sold his farm for $1,200 to Abe Mitchell, whom he has known all his life. But two weeks after the sale, Bert remembers that he has left his other pair of pants in the farmhouse attic. He asks Abe to let him fetch the pants, but Abe, although the pants are too big for him, will not let go of the windfall...
...embassy here in charge of Edward R. Murrow"-and went on spraying in all directions: "Our cars are different. You know, clocks up front and in back-different time zones." Turning Soviet-American relations into a latter-day bestiary, he noted that "our dogs are affectionate and can fetch newspapers. Russian dogs don't show affection, but they are all engineers." Getting around to women, he reached for a rare pun, said: "Women are getting more and more materialistic, always looking for security. They are saying, 'This is the way the world ends, not with a whim...
...dictator's most recent concern began three weeks ago with the arrival of Adlai Stevenson. President Kennedy's special envoy dutifully heard Stroessner out, then had U.S. embassy cars sent to fetch half a dozen opposition delegations. In his farewell airport message. Stevenson said pointedly: "The protection of civil rights, free elections and democratic procedures would greatly enhance international respect for Paraguay, and confidence in her future development and prosperity...
There was a time-and it was not so long ago-when the first word in a standard English-Swahili phrase book was "boy" (meaning an African of any age), and one of the first sentences to be mastered was, "Boy, fetch my boots." But under the noses of the colonials, the natives were taking a subtle revenge. Last week the Chicago Natural History Museum put on display 31 primitive sculptures from what might be called "the Colonial School"-a school of art dedicated to the proposition that the master race is slightly ridiculous...
...delicate little drawing of a wispy young woman by the 15th century Flemish Painter Hugo van der Goes made twice as much news. It was a study the master had made for a painting, possibly of St. Barbara. The painting has been lost; the study survived to fetch...