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...Soft Shoe. On foreign policy der Alte was plainly on the defensive. With next year's elections in mind, the Christian Democrats were dreaming up some vote-getting domestic measures in stead. Usually, at this season of the year, Finance Minister Fritz Schäffer plays his annual spring masquerade as the national miser. He puts on his shawl and oldest pair of shoes, bums a cigarette from his chauffeur and totters onstage to wail that the country is bound for the poorhouse unless he gets a few billions more to balance his budget. This year Schäffer...
...Mickey was not to be stopped that easily. In 1938, he sued the Lampoon for libel and threatened to tear down their Hearst-bequeathed edifice and install Benny Jacobson in its stead. He's a helluva lot funnier than the Lampoon anyway," he said. Along more "serious" lines, the Dude introduced a bill into the council to strike the words "Lenin" and "Leningrad" from all Cambridge library books. Eddic proudly tells anyone who will listen how his father predicted the "notorious spread of Marxism in the University...
...naive as to believe that it will be easy to do. In any case, the Assembly must announce its intentions very quickly. If not, it will collapse." Presumably, the Etats Généraux would then abolish the National Assembly and rule in its stead-though Poujade is characteristically vague about details...
...frequently had to scour the College on Monday merely to get the envelopes with which to apply for tickets. A similar problem became even more infuriating a week before the Yale game, when House superintendents ran out of Yale discount slips on Monday and gave out Dartmouth ones in stead. A few days later the H.A.A. announced that it could not accept the Dartmouth slips, so some 130 upperclassmen were out not only $3 each but also their priority on the better seats in the Bowl. It was at this point that Mr. Lunden said he was considering some changes...
...announcement never came. In stead, there was a terse bulletin stating that the plane would be an hour late. Later it was announced that it would be two hours late. Finally the dreaded announcement came: Flight 409 was down. Late in the afternoon the anguished people in the waiting room learned that Flight 409, inexplicably 25 miles west of its course, had crashed into 12,005-ft. Medicine Bow Peak, near Laramie, Wyo., killing all 66 aboard. It was the worst commercial airliner crash in U.S. history...