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...hunting cap, Jackie Kennedy, astride a calico hunting horse named Rufus, plunged into the fox-hunting season with gleeful energy. So caught up was Jackie in her favorite sport that she missed a White House meeting with the patrons of Washington's Gallery of Modern Art (the President pinch-hit), and daily chased the hounds across the misty Virginia fields near Upperville, where the Kennedys are building a ranch house costing approximately $90,000. During one three-hour hunt, the First Lady chivalrously dismounted to open a gate for her fellow riders. Said one weary young horseman...
...With the tangled British question all but settled, the other nations are queueing up with increasing urgency. First in line are Norway and Denmark. Though the Six grumble that both applicants could have come in at the start and are only applying now because they are feeling the economic pinch, both nations should slide easily into the Market in Britain's wake...
...businessmen will probably decide to build plants on the Continent.) France is just beginning to feel the slowdown. Industrial production has risen 7-5% in the past year, led by the auto industry's 16% jump. But new orders have dropped. Partly because of a profits pinch resulting from a 20% jump in wages over the past two years, French private industry is delaying new investment in plant and machines...
...example and speaks in Panglossian didactics: "When we do not want to think of something, it is best to forget it." Final Kinship. In Big Mac, moreover, Kos's aim reaches far beyond Yugoslavia's frontiers. When the whale's decay at last turns a pinch-nosed public against him, Rade is still despised-he loses mistress, friends, job and wits. Finally, he feels a kinship with the whale. Big Mac is destroyed, and Rade, who can think of society only as pagan, goes to a hilltop and shouts down on Belgrade: "Armageddon! Armageddon! Armageddon...
...chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and Cooper's sponsor. Invited to testify, Celler praised Cooper's record and declared: "Any man whose blood does not at times grow hot at the sight of evil or in the presence of utter incompetence isn't worth a pinch of snuff...