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Whirlybird Rescue. Hardest hit of all Europe, however, were the valleys of Switzerland and Austria, where only a month ago hotelkeepers, hoping for good ski weather, had despaired of the unseasonable warmth. There, the choking Staublawinen (dust avalanches), which literally drown their victims in a rush of dry, powdery snow, and the hurtling Rutschlawinen (slide avalanches), which bury their victims under sliding tons of packed snow, ice and boulders, wrought fearful havoc...
...Isaac Stern is one of the world's finest violinists. He has a big tone, an impressive technique and immense warmth. In Manhattan's Carnegie Hall one afternoon last week, Stern and his fiddle were in top form. Playing Beethoven's Violin Concerto with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under George Szell, Stern flaked warm, buttery tones off the violin with deep tenderness. As his bow drew the music from the strings, his body seemed to play its own accompaniment. Now he rose on his toes, now he shrugged with a phrase, now he twisted and bent...
With that, most of the 15 million Americans who watched him on TV retreated to the warmth of their family circles, and the spirit of Christmas closed in around them. The Eisenhowers were no exception-but their moments of privacy were few. For Ike, the holidays meant a season of hard work...
...only Britain's Queen but their own. From the first moment of their welcome in Auckland harbor, when New Zealand yachtsmen by the hundreds braved a spanking breeze in sleek sloops and smart knockabouts to guide their liner Gothic to its berth, Elizabeth and her husband Philip radiated warmth and friendliness. They cut security measures to a minimum so that their subjects could see them close at hand. They went out of their way to arrange a call on one proud Maori chieftain who had been bypassed in the official schedule. They heard that the daughter of a provincial...
Scotch & Democracy. Mlle. de Beauvoir did not like the taste of whisky, but at one point she drank Scotch until 3 in the morning "because Scotch is the key to America." She was astonished at the "sudden warmth and cordial simplicity" of Americans, and "American generosity" left her "feeling ashamed." In fact, she liked Americans so much that she wrote: "How I regretted that I could not feel more generously towards a country where the reign of man asserts itself so bravely...