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...shone brightly and ice melted on the Wannsee last week, the bottom fell out of the coal black market. The professionals, most of whom had saved little, tried frantically to muscle in on the vegetable business, which was already tightly organized. But Klaus, who had regularly sent money to his family, calmly prepared for his law exams. A TIME correspondent asked him how he felt about studying law half the time and breaking it the other half. Said ex-Paratrooper Klaus, with impudence but not entirely without reason...
...week's end the winds were beginning to blow. Between showers the sun shone fitfully and there was a moon for night plowing. As Eire's farmers drove their spades deep into the soggy earth, Eire's priests prayed for the fine weather to hold. "A grand campaign of prayer and work will save us," said Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory...
...lower slopes of the Green Mountains, the snow was almost gone. As the dazzling sun shone through the sugar bushes (maple groves), it glinted on some 3,000,000 tin buckets hanging on the grey trees. This week, as the weather turned warm, the groves tinkled with the "plunk plunkplunk plunkplink" of maple sap dropping into the buckets. "Dollars droppin'," Vermonters said, as they paused to listen. It was sugaring time...
...line for Kopp's offensive team during the drill were lettermen Jim Fein-berg and Nick Rodis at the guards, Howie Houston at tackle, and John Florentino at end, with newcomer John Gorczynski adding punch at one of the tackle slots. Emil Dvaric shone on the defensive side of Kopp's lineup...
...members of the board, is CAB's legalist, steady, if not brilliant. Harllee Branch, 67, a onetime Washington correspondent, was Second Assistant Postmaster General in charge of air mail under Jim Farley (his specialty: political chores). But Josh Lee, 55, onetime Bible-spouting Senator from Oklahoma, has not shone as an aviation expert...