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...most conservative people in the world." Curtice himself was not. Reaching into all parts of G.M.'s sprawling operations, he was the prime mover behind the two-tone paint job, the wrap-around windshield, the hardtop convertible. Only rarely, as when he indulged in the chrome-splashing spree that hurt sales in the late 1950s, was he wrong. Right or wrong, he constantly admonished that "G.M. must always lead...
...guard who stood out above the field this season was Endicott Peabody of Harvard who might be described in Kipling's "Fuzzy-wuzzy" phrase as an "inja-rubber idiot on the spree" or a big, fast-moving beggar who broke practically all the hostile squares...
Along the River Spree and the miles of adjacent canals where East meets West in Berlin, Communist floodlights play constantly across the water, shore guards listen for every suspicious splash, and East Berlin patrol boats watch for the smallest ripple. Hence the thrill of West Berliners last week at the tale of two East Berlin lads who not only swam to safety, but also dared to swim back across to Communist territory to show their pals the route...
...large, Jackie settled into a holiday routine of reading and children-watching, with occasional water-skiing and village-strolling. Late one day she went on a shopping spree, bought a variety of silk blouses in greens and pinks, along with some velvet rope-soled shoes. She seemed just another mother when she took Caroline to an ice-cream party at the villa of an American friend, Dr. Judith Schoellkopf...
...gawk at the bare, dead city beyond. "In one quick look," they nod, "you can see what Communism is like." Berliners proudly point out each place where the Wall has been breached: eight celebrated holes in the ground where East-West tunnelers surfaced; the spot on the River Spree where 14 East Berliners turned pirate and steered an excursion boat to freedom. On the Wall's grey blocks of compressed rubble they scrawl elaborate imprecations against East Germany's Red Boss Walter Ulbricht and his commissars; one of the politest avers, "They think like Eichmann." And wherever Germans...