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...thin at the resorts, and there is no waiting on tow lines. Skiers who usually arrive by car seem to be spurning the doubled train and bus schedules that the government has provided from cities. In Belgium, it had long been a national tradition for city families to pile into the car for a drive and Sunday dinner at a distant restaurant. Now sales in the outlying restaurants, especially in the Ardennes, have plummeted disastrously; whole villages dependent on the trade have been hurt. The howls grew so loud that the government-sensitive to shopkeepers, who make up a large...
...Folksinger, was a 1960s comedy hit; of emphysema; in Los Angeles. After lean years as a TV gagwriter and obscure success as one of the creators of I've Got a Secret, Sherman achieved instant stardom with such lyrics as "Do not make a stingy sandwich./ Pile the cold cuts high./ Customers should see salami/ Comin' thro...
...pathos left to modern man, relying on a single vision of complete and utter absurdity. He chews them and spits them out, showing them to be the pathetic hypocrisies they are. Even Ulysses, the modern interpretation, that is, of "search for meaning," is chewed up and left a mere pile of bones to rattle in an unabashedly hilarious world of mock despair...
...there is a good chance that gasoline rationing will be in force by January. Treasury Secretary George Shultz, a free-market advocate who is an Implacable foe of all controls, vigorously opposes rationing except as a "last resort," arguing that people are overreacting to the crisis. Shultz prefers to pile on taxes to curb consumption. One certainty: a fuel tax would add substantially to already oppressive living costs...
With roughly 15 minutes left in the half the deadlock was broken. After a cornerkick by Crimson team captain Lyman Bullard the ball deflected off a pile of players around the goal mouth. The ball came rolling out to Stuart Jones. "I cracked it," Jones said later. Jones' blast bounced off the Yale goal tender's chest and went into the corner of the goal to give the Harvard squad a 2-1 lead they never relinquished...