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...looking like three Statues of Liberty, held high above their heads big rubber balloons. At signal they solemnly let go. The balloons rose into a cloud-flecked, moonlit sky. Then for several hours hydrogen hissed from tanks as some 2,000 other balloons were filled and released in the glare of lamps from a truck convoy...
Under able Finance Minister Fritz Schaffer, employment is up, luxury taxes are stiffer. As economic inequality tends to diminish, a feeling of opportunity grows. On the streets, fewer Germans glare enviously at expensive automobiles; cheap Volkswagens, Opels and Fords are nearer the public's reach. Already, more Germans own cars than in 1936. In Bad Godesberg, a German mason carped at the new apartment houses for U.S. officials: "I wish we were that well off." Promptly two of his colleagues chipped in: "Don't worry. We will...
...days when there is a lot of glare, Thurber sometimes sees a face that looks to him like Herbert Hoover's; at other times, there appears what might be the George Washington Bridge flapping in the wind. Thurber is never bitter about his blindness, nor self-pitying, nor "saintly." Often he discusses it in a completely detached manner; now & then he uses it for little jokes. "I bet I can think up a cornier title for my memoirs than you can," he challenged a friend. "How about Long Time...
From the Korean central front TIME Correspondent Tom Lambert cabled: THE aid station, a big, green-canvas structure, was warm with the heat of a single stove and bright with the glare of eight electric bulbs. Its dirt floor was muddy at the entrance, where the wind blew the rain in through the flaps. Outside, an artillery battery fired steadily to the north. The concussion drummed on the ears, of the men inside...
...mile route from the airport to his hotel in a geranium-red Lincoln with 100 motorcycle cops leading the way. That night at Soldier Field, 50,000 (not a capacity crowd) cheered him to the echo when he rose-after being driven around the great bowl in the dramatic glare of a single searchlight beam-to make the second formal speech since his return...