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...suited for survival in the '20s and '30s. As a youth he had the advantages that his father, a successful Berlin art dealer, could provide. Yet like so many young upper-middle-class intellectuals, Benjamin rejected the very bourgeois values that had enabled him to loll around reading Marx, collecting rare first editions and traveling. He thought of himself as a private man of letters, a scholar-prince supported by stipends from his family. Unfortunately his father's money was not always enough. Parental disagreements and later Germany's ruinous inflation burst Benjamin's financial...
...track and field competition is scheduled. The infield shimmers with color, a kaleidoscope of uniforms and warmup suits. One thousand college and high school athletes jog slowly back and forth, stretch and massage tight muscles, crouch in imaginary starting blocks, huddle with coaches for last-minute strategy sessions, or loll on the synthetic green turf, sipping cocoa and waiting. Susan White, a 19-year-old hurdler from the University of Maryland, surveys the scene. There is a trace of awe in her voice: "When I was in high school, I never dreamed of competing in a national meet. People...
...room. His point, although garbled, is that pen manufacturers must be careful not to overprice or their products won't sell. When a student volunteers that his Bic pen cost 39¢, it strikes the teacher as a revelation. "Really? Have they gone up that much?" The kids loll back, tittering. "Would you cry if you lost a 39¢ pen?" he asks. "How about a $150 pen?" By now the class is thoroughly lost. "What are you getting at?" one obviously bright student asks impatiently...
This disappointment is especially hard to take after the promise of the album's cover. A color drawing of a good-looking oil tanker graces the front while funky old trucks of all varieties loll like disgruntled catfish around the borders of the back. The choice of songs seems right on schedule too, from "Looking at the World Through A Windshield" to "Semi-Truck," which features the lines...
...gates for a conducted tour by newsmen for the first time since it was built in the mid-1960s. Correspondent Cloud, who accompanied the tour, reported that "there is no hint of war here. The 8,000 airmen work an eight-hour day and then are free to loll at poolside or watch a movie. For the most part, they appear uniformly clean-cut and middleclass. 'It seemed a good place to learn my job and advance my career,' said Captain Claude Hamilton, 28, of Waco, Texas." Asked about the dangers to civilians...