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...favorite for practitioners of the autostop. At border crossings, West German police have been known to halt a car and order the driver to take aboard a wholesome-looking stoppeur. Neatness counts, since it denotes respectability; so does a pair of knobby knees (male), because Germans like outdoorsiness. The thumb is a U.S. import; native custom dictates an erect forearm and a vigorous loose-wristed wag of the hand. One student last summer became king of the Autobahnen by carrying a sign that said: I KNOW A THOUSAND JOKES...
Muddled Queen. Most Dutch people now feel that Irene was too headstrong, but that the Queen could have prevented a lot of the trouble if she had been tough a little earlier in the day. Juliana was brought up under the domineering thumb of her mother, the great Wilhelmina, and was determined that her own daughters should have a happier childhood. Crown Princess Beatrix received a good education with a stress on her coming constitutional role, but the three other girls were scarcely trained as princesses and had wide freedom. A friend of the royal family recalls, "Sometimes weeks would...
...feel him a little longer." By the time the fourth game ended (the Celtics won it 98-95), both squads were mostly walking wounded. San Francisco's Gary Phillips was out for the duration with a back injury, Guy Rodgers was playing with a dislocated thumb, and Al Attles was limping around with a pulled thigh muscle. Boston's John Havlicek had a gash on one knee, and Tommy Hein-sohn sported a magnificent shiner...
...recognize that we are in high focus throughout the world in the manner in which our free enterprise system works. Please give me this opportunity to show that our system of free enterprise can work." What Johnson failed to mention was that the Federal Government's thick thumb on the process of collective bargaining can hardly amount to free enterprise by anyone's standards...
...keep up with the Joneses nowadays," says Manufacturer Sumpter Turner happily, "you have to raise your own tomatoes in January-as well as have plenty of orchids." But there is much more to it than green-thumb-upmanship. There is the satisfaction of growing or propagating plants for the outdoor garden instead of buying them, of cutting a spray of forsythia in midwinter and "forcing" it into a golden harbinger of spring, of watching a child's pride in his own waist-high plantation, and, not least, of dropping into a city florist's from time to time...