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Elsewhere behind the Iron Curtain, the situation is even blacker. Secondhand autos of every make, year and origin are quickly snapped up at astronomical prices, e.g., $5,000 for a tiny secondhand Renault. The price of 90,000 zlotys ($22,500 at the official rate of exchange) for a new Warszawa represents 250 weeks' work for a Pole. Hungarians, Bulgarians and Rumanians, who manufacture no cars of their own, must set their sights on imported Russian Pobedas, which cost them the equivalent of from 130 weeks' work to 750 weeks' work (in Rumania), depending on the currency...
...quite amiable in their personal relationships. The British, who built our engineering college and polytechnic institute, were very exacting in matters of personal comfort. They demanded select housing for each family, complete with new furniture. With the Soviets we put 20-odd families into five houses, and give them secondhand furniture. There have been no complaints...
...When illness hit, Ike had made only two of the speeches. The third, an appeal for support of the Administration's foreign aid program, was delivered in part by Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, subbing for the ailing President. But the appeal, delivered well but secondhand, got snowed under in the blizzard of news about Ike's illness. In speechmaking as in policymaking, members of the President's team can take over some of his tasks, but there is only one man with the title and office, the power and prestige of President...
...want," Derek bought himself a secondhand truck. That meant applying to the Newcastle authorities for a carrier license...
...students what they thought of Aldous Huxley. "Only one or two of them," he reported, "had ever heard of him." At Kenyon, Poet-Critic John Crowe Ransom sadly detects "a sort of idleness of the creative imagination." At the University of Illinois, English Professor Charles Shattuck complains : "A secondhand bookstore wouldn't be supported in this town." Says Joseph Baker, professor of English at the State University of Iowa: "Even the intellectuals do not read as much as they did a generation ago, and those who make literature their specialty tend to be Alexandrian-they talk of form, metaphor...