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...swimming trunks, see J. Press, 82 Mt. Auburn. Both boxer and narrow leg styles in patchwork or plain madras are now reduced 20 per cent...
Vons in Volkswagens. Like the last great auks waddling across the tundra, a few ancient families still survive in the feudal splendor they enjoyed when Germany was a patchwork of petty principalities. In Franconia, convivial Count Franz Erbach presides over three family castles (one is kept for hunting parties); at dinner, his liveried chief huntsman stations himself behind the count's chair to summon a footman whenever his mas ter's wineglass is empty. Prince Emich zu Leiningen, 36, whose escutcheon is at least 880 years old, is a globe-trotting big-game hunter who honed his marksmanship...
...Conant sees it, this would prod states to raise standards while using federal funds without federal control. With out such a plan, Conant foresees "a patchwork series of decisions about spending federal funds, reached by compromises in Congress between pressure groups. That a sensible, nationwide policy can be developed the way we are now going. I question with all the emphasis...
...structure, through whatever political lenses, agrees that it is a mess. It has grown up piecemeal over the years without any guiding philosophy, becoming ever more misshapen and complex, until today it sprawls over 468 pages in the Internal Revenue Code. It combines harshly progressive rates with an enormous patchwork of special-case provisions intended to mitigate the rates. "The first title of the tax code," says Mills, "states that all income shall be taxed; the rest of the code is exceptions." As a result of all the exceptions, only 43% of the total personal income...
Charles de Gaulle. The Presidency of the U.S. is a truly cincho job compared with running the chaotic political patchwork known as the French government. Successful execution of this formidable feat has rightly earned for De Gaulle a stature far above the various clowns, clods and posturing windbags whose incompetence as heads of state has served to keep the world in constant crisis since World...