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...want one foot in the grave.' " Old Luftwaffe pilots, now in their late 30s or early 40s, prove slower to train than their opposite U.S. numbers, report U.S. instructors at Fürstenfeldbruck. Banned from the air for ten years, baffled by the jet age complexities, bridling at homework and "NATO English," and afflicted by the general Ohne mich ("Count me out") psychology which infects German soldiery, the tigers of 1940 have not yet recovered their bite...
...plight showed how personal pressures and preoccupations can affect the voting of even a highly conscientious legislator. Hays had been so busy with the unfamiliar duties and responsibilities of his new post as lay president of the Southern Baptist Convention that he could find little time to do his homework on the new foreign-aid program. On the committee's first go-round, he instinctively voted against a sharp departure from Congress' customary practice of year-to-year authorizations for foreign aid. But Hays felt uneasy about his vote. On his weekend, he read up on the advantages...
...face is lined and 6 -ft.-2-in. frame slightly stooped, it is not because of worry: he thrives on problems, Each morning, accompanied by his wife, he walks to his office from his Sutton Place apartment, usually carries a bulging briefcase full of last night's homework. He rarely goes out at night, seldom entertains, indulges in no hobbies, has never been known to take a real vacation. His desk is clean, his decisions swift, his temper always even...
When spring comes the weather is much more pleasant and the teachers give us less homework...
Blossom Dearie (Verve). Songstress Dearie chants the subtler changes on romance-'Deed I Do, Lover Man, Everything I've Got-in a wide-eyed, cuddle-up-to-the-mike voice that suggests she did her homework in places where nice girls rarely wander. "I have got eyes for you," she warns, "to give you dirty looks...