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Opposing coaches swear that he has eyes in the back of his head. As he dodges around back there, he has an uncanny "feel" for tacklers closing in on him from behind, and the glint of sunlight off a gold helmet among a swarm of defenders downfield is all he needs to register the position of his receiver. Says Coach Hardin: "Some people will be in a room a thousand times, and when they're out of it, they can't tell how many lights it has, what shape the furniture is, or anything. Staubach could. He sees...
...Limburger. Germans with weak eyesight flock to Bad Wiessee; those in search of "rejuvenation" swear by Austria's Bad Gastein. Aix (pronounced aches) -la-Chapelle and Bad Oeynhausen offer famed rheumatism cures. Some resorts, such as Baden-Baden and nearby Badenweiler, are known as Gesellschaftsbäder, or social spas, because patrons go there more for the crowd than the cure. Nearly all the spas advertise cures for the capitalist ailment known deferentially as Manager-Krankheit, the manager's disease. Says the owner of Baden-Baden's chic Bellevue Hotel, where Greta Garbo stayed through July without...
...Flanders village of Quiquendone is a study in slow motion. The burgomaster is "phlegm personified." Conversations are punctuated by extended periods of silence. It is a town, says one man, "where there has not been the shadow of a discussion for a century, where the cartmen do not swear, where the coachmen do not insult each other, where horses do not run away, where the dogs do not bite, where the cats do not scratch." For lovers to marry before they have courted languorously for ten years is a scandal...
...Cabinet crisis that leaves the country rudderless for even longer than customary in Italy or pre-Gaullist France. In 1956 the governmental vacuum lasted for 122 days, while the old Cabinet carried on as caretaker. By last week, when Queen Juliana flew back from an Italian vacation to swear in new Prime Minister Victor Marijnen, the government had taken Dutch leave for 70 days...
...summer, Prof. Louis Hartz' Social Sciences S-118, and Prof. Robert G. McCloskey's Government S-107, are given then. Hartz teaches "Democratic Theory and Its Critics," a trenchant and often brilliant (occasionally too brilliant) examination of the "reconstruction of classical liberal thought." Many have been known to swear by Hartz, as they do by McCloskey, who teaches (in the summer only) "American Political Thought...