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Franz Josef Strauss, 51, the barrel-shaped boss of the Christian Democrats' autonomous Bavarian branch, took on perhaps the most difficult portfolio of all: finance. Former Chancellor Ludwig Erhard's government in effect fell over the refusal of his Free Democrat coalition partners to go along with needed tax increases. But Strauss has less balky coalition mates. As a start toward wiping out the $1.5 billion deficit for the 1967 budget, Strauss did exactly what Erhard had wanted to do: increased taxes on gasoline and tobacco. The new political alignment made all the difference: Strauss's bill...
...hand he tramped through the fields in business suit, grey fedora and dark topcoat. Still, he proved a good shot. In any case, the forests of De Gaulle's Rambouillet chateau are well stocked for just such occasions, and it was a lot like shooting birds in a barrel. Together, the twelve-man party liquidated 263 pheasants...
Also aboard were a barrel of beer and plenty of bottles of assorted other spirits. "If I have a craze for anything -sorry if this sounds bad-it's generally drink," confesses Chichester. "I know pretty well at the outset whether it's going to be a rum voyage, a gin voyage or a Mackeson [beer] voyage...
...even a shipment of California smog had arrived on the prevailing westerlies, and Baltimore Mayor Theodore McKeldin, 66, might have been tempted to think that Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, 57, was a welsher. Hadn't McKeldin bet Yorty a barrel of Chesapeake oysters against some comparably juicy California product that the Orioles would beat the Dodgers in the Series? And hadn't the Birds walloped the Bums in four straight? Well, yes, squirmed Yorty, but he hadn't really accepted the wager: "Under local law I could not bet." Nonetheless, Yorty informed reporters, "I am sending...
Schroeder's cage is as successful as it is audacious. In the midst of a cluttered, barrel-heaped warehouse is a tightly webbed bullpen. The leading corner of this cage, facing the audience, is a tall, black obscuring post. The audience can never see the encaged characters without peering through the latticework and around the post...