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...refugees have managed to slip through it, tunnel under it or scramble over the top. Three weeks ago, work began on a higher, sleeker model. Virtually complete last week was a new 250-yd. section near the old Reichstag. Atop the 12-ft. structure, engineers placed lengths of circular pipe denying any potential climber a handhold...
Among today's grand array of orchestral instruments, the humble recorder - usually a foot-long wooden pipe with seven holes for the fingers and one for the thumb - looks like a pipsqueak. Yet its sweet warblings, wistful twitters and charming coos work such a Pied Piper spell over modern audiences that the recorder has become the fastest-rising instrument in the U.S. With more amateurs taking up the recorder than the violin, cello, viola and bass combined, the number of players has climbed from 100,000 in 1955 to 750,000 last year. The American Recorder Society now boasts...
...Hogan's Goat (just out) and on another a copy of Life with its Alfred feature. "Did you see what they did to me?" he asks, chuckling at the magazine. "How about that come-hither look by the church door?" And then William Alfred sits down, lights a meerschaum pipe, and begins to talk...
...sake of the university and make it for the student himself." He says be uses anecdotes to point out the human effect but confesses that sometimes, "I tell them just because I like them." It was at this point in the discussion that he put away his pipe. "One of my students got me to try this pipe -- said it smoked like an angel. Brother, was he lying...
...topic. Then, voila! The Malaysian High Commissioner to Australia disappeared without a trace. Who? Well, actually, even in sleepy Canberra Tun Lim Yew Hock, 51, wasn't exactly well known; but once he had dropped from sight, suddenly almost everyone recalled having seen the dapper, pipe-smoking little diplomat at parties or the Canberra race track where, it was whispered excitedly, he had lost more than...