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...thought as I signed up almost two weeks in advance to photograph her for the school newspaper. Days passed, some more self-consciously than others, as I'd realize and rationalize the kind of motives I had--you know the feeling--for participating in such an event. Her spell had been cast. Now and then I would mention just who would be coming to town and who was going to take her picture...
Within a short time, the whole question of stimulus could turn out to be less crucial. Even if the unusual cold spell continues through February, as forecast, life should be getting back to normal in the spring. Plants will gradually reopen, people will return to work, and production in the last three quarters might go a long way toward making up for losses in the first. "Let's put it this way," says a top aide of the Council of Economic Advisers, "without the cold, we would have been in a lot better shape early in the year...
...special tricks for keeping warm. Every man wears a shapka, a fur (muskrat, rabbit, squirrel, fox or Persian lamb) hat with ear flaps. Everyone wears warm boots; the best are the felt valenki favored by villagers. People who work outdoors wear, of course. Soviet Union suits. After a long spell in the cold, they raise spirits with a stiff jolt of vodka and a hunk of fatback...
Blessing in Disguise. Whatever the reason, and however severe the blow to Mrs. Gandhi, Ram's departure does not necessarily spell her downfall. The Congress Party, having ruled India since 1947, is well entrenched, and Indira remains the country's most powerful-and popular-political figure Moreover, she benefits from the fact that the Janata Party, whose elements range from the right-wing Old Congress faction to the Socialists to the Hindu-first Jana Sangh, is united in almost nothing except its opposition to the existing government. Indeed, as one Janata spokesman confided to TIME...
...Elis' Carnell Cooper notched it at 35 apiece with 13:16 left to play and thereafter the cagers' offense began to fizzle. After a three-minute scoring lull with both squads tied at 39, Yale piled up a 48-41 lead. During the cold spell, the hoopsters went eight minutes without a field goal before Irion dropped a whirling hook from the baseline...