Word: pal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crusty old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was laying about him with splendid gusto last week, wisecracking about American politics ("Say, what ever happened to Lyndon Johnson?"), needling the British (he says they deliberately spread misconceptions), even taking a backhanded dig at his pal in Paris, Charles de Gaulle...
...story begins, Clem emerges from his cocoon of dirty laundry onto the Via Veneto for a day or so of wife-sitting with Hilda, pregnant bride of his old school and college pal Mark Stone (né Stein). Stone is now a widely liberal rabbi, and busy with last-minute preparations for his International Conference on Love to be held at the offices of the U.S. Information Service. Hilda and her attendant Clem attend the conference, go to bed, get mixed up in a May Day demonstration in the Piazza del Popolo. Clem knocks Mark cold (with a stone, naturally...
...high school algebra. Tuning up for the school's spring "talent fair," a sixth-grader had polled all no state legislators on their views of Michigan's proposed new constitution. A seventh-grader fed radioactive food to mother mice to study its effect on sucklings; his pal built a Geiger counter to help out. One eighth-grader analyzed Detroit newspapers to see how fairly they covered Michigan's gubernatorial campaign. Another designed a tiny bathysphere with sensing devices, so he can send a hamster to the bottom of a deep lake and record its reactions...
...Greenmantle, for instance, another Hannay pal called Sandy Arbuthnot spurns the passionate advances of a fetching but fell lady spy named Hilda von Einem. "You must know, Madam," he says as bullets whiz about them, "that I am a British officer." Nowadays such behavior is hopelessly out of all fashion, literary and otherwise...
...operators and invisible attendants that materialize for apartment dwellers, the soaring cost of trees and festivities -this is only part of it. There is the problem of the Rich Relation who sprays the family with costly presents-how much reciprocity is necessary? There is the problem of the Marginal Pal who somewhere along the way has moved from the list for cards to the list for presents-who will be the first to quit...