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...difficult to fix a minimum budget for someone else to live on," Toepfer wrote recently in the Law School's Alumni Bulletin. "Difficulties arise from the hundreds of students with an endless variety of backgrounds, family situations, and personal requirements...
...deplore the possibility of putting the Government into this field, either as a party in negotiations and certainly in establishing laws to fix the levels of profits and of wages and prices [but] I would again insist that the whole 175 million of us ought to make clear that we are concerned about this matter, and this is not something where we are standing aside and seeing ourselves hurt...
...cruiser had broken down. The rescuers tossed him a towline, whereupon the stalled skipper triumphantly tied it around his waist and hollered "Let's go!" One of the classic invitations to trouble comes for the outboard owner when the engine quits. The owner lunges to the stern to fix it. His added weight brings the transom, already too low in the water, lower still. A five-gallon wave (roughly 50 lbs.) slops aboard. The next wave comes in easier, and the boat swamps...
...Proper procedure: move forward, throw out anchor or a bucket with a line on it for a sea anchor. Put on a life preserver. Fix the engine...
Such moments can be glorious, and Bonnard's art was to seize and fix them for all time. His Piazza del Popolo has the quality of a good dream about to vanish. The Terrace shimmers, billowing like a veil before the onrush of huge forces. And finally Early Spring, which seems so gentle at first, is heaving, budding, bursting, beckoning, filled with wet splendors and bright pangs of delight...