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...Human Scratch-Pad" and dermographia [extreme sensitivity of the skin-Jan. 19]: as a long sufferer of this complaint, I thought you might be interested in knowing that it had one positive aspect for me. When I was younger, nothing quite so impressed a girl on a day at the beach as emblazoning her name on my forearm in bright, raised letters. It served to cement a number of relationships. Alas, the girls get older and wiser (and more difficult to impress), and dermographic penmanship no longer does the trick...
...Eighth Congressional District, stretching from the Blue Ridge to the Northern Neck and including Charlottesville and Fredericksburg. Judge Smith owns three farms, lives on his family lands near Broad Run, where he has nearly 300 head of dairy cattle, and an old red sow whose ears he likes to scratch. A hard fighter but a fair one. Smith knows the House rules and lives by them. "These rules have been developed over 170 years." he says. "There is reason behind them...
Recalling those bitter days of uphill struggle, De Gaulle himself has written: "I was starting from scratch. In France, no following and no reputation. Abroad, neither credit nor standing. But this very destitution showed me my line of conduct. It was by adopting without compromise the cause of the national recovery that I could acquire authority. At this moment, the worst in her history, it was for me to assume the burden of France." This attitude "was to dictate my bearing and to impose upon my personality an attitude I could never again change...
Incentives of Fear. In China too, the boss blamed those below. Mao was also suffering from a desperate agricultural imbalance. He set out audaciously to do two tasks at once-to create an industrial structure from scratch while at the same time boosting farm output to feed an increasing population. To achieve a radical increase in farm products, he did not propose to introduce Khrushchev's costly peasant incentives. Instead, Mao has substituted Communism's cheapest incentives-fear and control...
Block Itch. In Hamilton, Ohio, police arrested John Flyman for going from door to door asking people to scratch his back...