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With the presidential election still more than a year away, this is the Hot-Stove League season in national politics. It is the time when small trades are talked about, small promises made, small wagers placed on the prospects...
...will house a nursery, a 350-car garage, a laundry, and a few shops as well as 499 apartments. The suites, which range from one-room efficiency units to three-bedroom apartments, will probably rent for $35 to $170 a month. Each is equipped with a refrigerator and a stove...
...family with a medium-sized car, a refrigerator, a stove and a washing machine is apt to own about 2,500 Ibs. of steel. But the 1,100-Ib. saturation figure (which also includes the steel in the building a man works in, the bridge he crosses, the commuter train he rides in) is reached by dividing all the steel purchased in a nation each year by the entire population...
...class district of Dresden. Since the three young artists were in revolt against convention, including the hiring of professional models, they painted their own girl friends in the nude; at any one time three or four of these young ladies might be milling in happy nakedness around the kerosene stove, on which a pot of coffee was always steaming. The artists worked at any hour of the day or night; and while two sketched, a third would recite Nietzsche or Rilke...
...cardinals who had gathered there to name Pope John XXIII's successor.* But no one anticipated a long conclave-and the expectations were not wrong. At 11:22, smoke began billowing from the rickety metal chimney that led upward from the Sistine Chapel, where in a ceremonial stove the used ballots were burned. Twice the day before, a few puffs of white had first appeared, but then the smoke had turned a disappointing black-the signal that no Pope had been chosen. This time there was no mistake: the smoke was white-bella bianca. Moments later, the Vatican Radio...