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...chic. Says one thrift-shop regular: "My husband is a doctor and we have a maid, so obviously I am not forced to buy in thrift shops. I find it fun. The atmosphere is much friendlier. Everybody is in it together." Mrs. Lee Campbell, who runs Fig Leaf in Arlington, Texas, agrees. "They're bringing in their friends now," she says. "Once, they may not have wanted anyone to know exactly where they found the bargain." Ruth Pollitz, a volunteer salesclerk at the Thrift House for the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies in Manhattan, notes that her shop is "like...
...plays guitar at breakneck speed on the soundtrack; France playing Beethoven or rising from bathing in a stream, like a figure out of myth; the grandmother opening herself up to nature at last, as she bends down with the eye of benevolent intelligence to watch a cricket on a leaf at sunset; the innate elegance and courage of Albert Horn; the noble face of the aristocrat's hound; and the images of the countryside itself, unearthly grey before a thunderstorm, intensely green beneath the rain...
...covered more accidents caused by people running across a street or highway to take a picture," said New Hampshire State Trooper T.R. Korbet. Growled one tourist: "The traffic is so bad along the Mohawk Trail that they had to bring out Indians to entertain all the leaf freaks sitting in their cars with nothing...
...their cars, turning on heaters periodically to ward off frost. Others considered it quaint fun to be matched up with locals who turned their homes into "foliage houses"-that is, they rented out their guest bedrooms for $5 to $10 per person. Even the traffic was bearable for true leaf watchers. Said Donna Carpenter, a former New Englander on a weekend visit to New Hampshire: "If you could drive fast, you wouldn't see as much...
...preparing that blueprint, all week long the White House's economic team, headed by Treasury Secretary William Simon and Presidential Adviser L. William Seidman, sifted piles of option papers streaming in from a dozen departments and agencies. They also studied loose-leaf notebooks fat with suggestions that came out of the recent round of minisummits. All the way through, the President himself was deeply involved...