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...srath's moderate climate helps energy conservation. During the Hinsdale summers, the mercury often climbs into the 90s, but it seldom rises above the mid-70s in the German suburb, which has no need for air conditioning. In the winter, when the temperature averages about 25° in Hinsdale, Rösrath has comparatively balmy readings in the mid-30s. As it happens, Rösrath also benefits from the coincidental fact that wood is scarce: virtually every building is made of stone or brick slathered generously with gray-white plaster. Windows tend to be small, doors heavy...
Brisk Trade. Finding work is seldom a problem, as long as the immigrants are not fussy about what they do, and few are. All they have to show an employer is a Social Security card, which is about as hard to acquire as a Popsicle. They can either borrow one, buy a forged one or get a genuine one by submitting a driver's license...
...government agency is under any pressure to report the "undocumented" aliens it comes across. Even if an immigrant is caught, he is often released on his pledge that he will leave the country; he may renege and simply move to a different job in another area. Criminal penalties are seldom imposed by courts with overcrowded dockets...
Fitzgibbons, as you may gather, is a perfectionist. He seldom actually plays, preferring instead the thankless hours spent on the practice range. When he returns to the confines of Canaday, he spends more time practicing sliding his hips through the swing by banging them against the door of his room. "It's rough on the hips," he says...
...Seldom has that intrusion generated the outrage caused last month when the FDA announced that it planned to ban noncaloric saccharin as a food additive (TIME, March 21). Last week the FDA decided to hedge a little. Newly appointed Commissioner Donald Kennedy announced that the agency will go ahead with the ban, probably by midsummer -but will allow saccharin to be sold, like aspirin, as an over-the-counter drug, at least until the end of the year...