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...Blattzeit (roe deer mating season), hundreds of hunters trod through West Germany's deer country. Few could afford Göring's "hoch" style of shooting, but those who could manage it wore the hunter's minimum dress-green knickers, brown or green suede jacket, cravat, stylish hat, rubber-soled stalking shoes...
...Administration wisely avoided one big mistake: in 1946 it refused to go along with the plans of such bureaucrats as former Housing Chief Wilson Wyatt (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) to 1) strait-jacket the housing industry with rigid controls and 2) put the Government into the housing business with a vast program for prefabricated houses. (Most prefabs. with or without Government support, have had small success...
...what the other fellow is thinking." Translated into political terms, this means that he has an uninhibited affection for people, even strangers, and shows it when they put personal demands on his life. Right after his wedding in 1949, he overheard his bride say: "Will someone fix my jacket before I go out and face that mob?" Said the bridegroom: "Why, that's no mob out there, my dear, that's the American people." When the American people began to make sightseeing detours through the driveway of the Barkley farm, Mrs. Barkley was all for putting...
...search," he claimed, "has been made easier as the rosiness has been stripped from Communism. But I hope this class can learn to live without a strait-jacket...
Aloof and austere at 82, Artist Yeats has lived alone in Dublin since his wife's death in 1947. An old man, and a Protestant in a Catholic land, he has few close friends now. Dublin knows him best as a lean, stooped figure in a navy blue jacket, cut sea-captain style, and black string tie, who is sometimes to be seen rambling through the city...