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...without making Memorial Drive traffic more of a dilemma than it is already. Although a few signs and a few posts will clutter up the Houses' classic view of the Charles, they are far better decorations than pieces of glass, fender, and smashed tree that will otherwise continue to festoon the vista every week...
...candid diary; when he died in 1851, shot in a boundary dispute by a half-breed, the diary filled 2,000 pages. Rediscovered almost 90 years later in the attic of his old house, William Johnson's Natchez is one of those authentic windfalls that period scholars festoon with footnotes, and plain readers enjoy as offbeat browsing...
Blocks of bright new stores have appeared amid the ruins of West German cities; rings of huge sausages festoon the show windows of butcher shops. Even the sidewalk vendor of frankfurters has reappeared in Frankfurt. West German industrial production stands at 87% of the 1936 level, steel output has soared to nine million tons a year. But the anniversary triumph requires a damper of caution. West Germany is beset by some alarming economic difficulties...
From Vienna, John Walker reported proudly that he had managed to secure a "fine little electric train" for his young son, Michael. The Walkers had a Christmas tree and hoped to festoon it with popcorn strings-if they could find some popcorn...
Spring in Hunan is about as fair a sight as any landscape painter could want. Rain-washed red hillsides are green again. Young willow leaves festoon the roads winding through the rice paddies. But the springtime beauty of this central Chinese province, one of the nation's "rice bowls," ends with the landscape. A portrait painter in Hunan would find an ugly subject-the bitter, bony face of famine...