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...Having lived in Europe for the past eighteen months I am prepared to duck from June until September as the thundering herd of tourists (probably quite a few as a result of your article) sweeps through Europe this summer. JAMES M. KYLE Lieutenant, U.S.A.F. c/o Postmaster New York City...
...where President Magsaysay enjoys shaking hands with visitors, tours through the tropical countryside which include a look at native dancing and cockfighting plus a whopping big Filipino meal (a barbecued pig, prawns, coconut ice cream eaten out of a coconut shell). One local delicacy for the daring: balut, a duck egg ready to hatch...
...Stevenson is a dead duck politically -and this seems quite likely-don't think that Estes Kefauver is a live one, flying directly to a White House perch. Like Wendell Willkie, Estes Kefauver seems to like people and people seem to like him. But the political leaders don't like him-and in particular the Democratic members of the Senate. The Southerners in these days of the hot segregation issue don't like Estes either...
...duck the humiliation and inconvenience of arrest, Adhemar took to his (Beechcraft and flew off to Asunción, Paraguay, leaving his lawyers to seek a writ of habeas corpus from the federal supreme court and deploy themselves for an appeal. As a matter of course, Adhemar issued a manifesto before he took off. "My flag will not be lowered," it read. "Without hatred or rancor for those who attacked me so cruelly, I ask the people to wait quietly for better days. Justice is often tardy, but sure...
Even if the coffee is free, some employees prefer to go out for coffee, just to get out of the office. "I know I duck out twice a day," says a sympathetic boss in Dallas, "and I don't even drink coffee." Nevertheless, most companies who have polled their workers report that employees would rather have coffee in the office than fight jammed elevators and drugstores once or twice a day. Many executives even boast of serving better coffee than the cafe across the street. Says Vergil Finnell. a San Francisco coffee caterer: "A lot of companies now offer...