Word: scratches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three hours later, on the other side of the East-West barrier, a West German couple enjoying an afternoon walk came upon a little boy curled up in the grass sound asleep. His face was dirt-smudged, he had lost one shoe, there was a scratch on his cheek-but otherwise he seemed all right. The youngest East German refugee evidently had crossed the Iron Curtain with the ease of Br'er Rabbit skipping through the briar patch, somehow missing the mines and the gaze of the Grepos. When he woke up, he could only say: "Ich heisse Peter...
Family Squabble. Like Chandigarh, Brasilia, hundreds of miles from nowhere, is being built from scratch. As the new capital of a proud nation, it also bears the overtones of a monument. Brasilia is in fact an expensive showpiece with more ingenuity than humanity; crossroads?hence traffic lights ?have been eliminated, but there are not enough parking spaces near government buildings. Housing for officials smacks of the ghetto. If you are in the Air Ministry, you not only work together all day, but you also live in the same compound with your colleagues at night...
...necessary elements to cultivate it." On uneconomic small plots carved out of land fit only for cattle-grazing or large-scale farming, peasants often fall hopelessly in debt or become victims of land speculators. Those who still use the wooden stick plows of their grandfathers can scarcely scratch out a living on plots that average only twelve acres. On remaining private farms with prime land and modern machinery, production runs about 20% ahead of the ejidos...
...view of the outsiders. There is a prevalence of "pornmerchants" (peddlers of pornographic literature). "Kinks" are those with highly specialized sexual aberrations. The fad for Zen among U.S. beatniks is a London import (1950). Drugs in London are mostly run by what in New York are called "scratch bums," i.e.. bums so crawling with lice that they are immune from police search. Dimly in Kops's background, public events take place: the Jews of the East End defeat Mosley's blackshirts in pitched battle, but it is all a dream. Kops alone is real to Kops. What...
...Kennedy originally recommended tax cuts totaling some $13.6 billion. But the Administration also figured on offsetting $3.3 billion of that by closing tax loopholes and correcting inequities. Wilbur Mills, a longtime advocate of real, radical, start-from-scratch tax reform, was unwilling to go along with the Administration's halfway measures. The result was ironical: under Mills, the Ways and Means Committee approved provisions that would save only about $700 million, as against the $3.3 billion the Administration had hoped for. Items...