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...reflected in the headlines, telling of fresh furrows in the "dead zone" which the Reds are digging between their own sector of Berlin and Communist East Germany beyond. It shows in shabby gangs of unemployed who shovel slush out of ice-clogged streets-obviously refugees unused to manual labor...
...Rainbow of Chaos. The National Assembly ranks with pousse cafe as a peculiarly French concoction. The pousse café is one of the most unnecessary drinks in the bartender's manual-a frivolous combination of liqueurs and cognacs, one poured gingerly atop the other to avoid blending them together. Each ingredient forms one bar in a rainbow of alcoholic chaos, each flavor nullifying the taste of the next, all falling into murky disarray if jiggled by a shaky hand. The Assembly is the pousse café of parliament...
...drink it, or carry it with you, bury it.' This is known as field sanitation." Of K.P. duty, Reed wrote: "There's only one thing worse than pulling [it] a first time, and that's pulling it a second time . . ." Of the Manual of Arms: "I have learned to do just about everything with my rifle except shoot the doggone thing." Occasionally, Reed gave advice to future recruits, e.g., "Don't volunteer for anything. I've said this before as a civilian, and as a soldier I can't emphasize it too much...
Flooded Basements. Instead of expanding like Sears Roebuck during the postwar boom, Ward has lopped about 30 stores from its retail chain (current total: 602). As part of his 6-in.-thick manual of "standard operating procedures," Avery ruled that any outlays for maintenance and improvement that exceeded $15 (and in emergencies $200) would have to be approved by him personally. "You could have a basement full of water," said one Ward alumnus, "and not be able to do anything about it until you got Avery's name on a piece of paper. If you wanted...
...Western Hemisphere (the first U.S. federal law was passed in 1935). Since then, Chile has fleshed out the sys! tern to the point where every money earner is entitled, bylaw, to cradle-to-grave insurance against childbirth costs, doctor bills, hospital bills, disability losses and funeral expenses. Manual laborers, furthermore, get old-age pensions up to full working...