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...Austria and in East Germany there was a switch from military to civilian control; 8) the unexpected and damaging June 17 riots in East Germany were followed by confession of error and a promise to make life easier for East Germany; 9) in Latvia and the Ukraine, Communist Party shake-ups took place...
...Washington. The office was of necessity less precisely defined than the judicial and legislative branches. It might have degenerated into a puppet presidency. Washington defined it by stepping into it. He held it in great esteem, and imparted to it the dignity of his own character. He refused to shake hands during his eight years in the office-he felt that such a gesture of familiarity was beneath the presidency-and always bowed instead. He dressed richly in velvet, wore hats plumed with ostrich feathers, rode in a six-horse coach with liveried lackeys and outriders, felt himself the equal...
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...around. In G.O.P. quarters there was also mild irritation that Taft had handpicked Knowland, thus filling a top policy job without consulting other senior senators. After lunch, making his way through the corridors on his way to his Capitol office, Taft was stopped by colleagues, who wanted to shake his hand and wish him well. For all he had the same message: "I'll be back next session." To some he said it two or three times, as if determined to make it come true. Late in the afternoon, Minority Leader Lyndon Johnson rose up to express the general...
Clergymen of the area tend to blame such doings on religious apathy. "Church customs have mostly become hardened forms of hollow traditions," says Pastor Wolfgang Baader of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. "He who does not believe in God must fear the Devil." But though authorities shake their heads at witch talk, they shrug their shoulders over what to do about it and point to the case of Farmer Bading of Lüneberg Heath. Hannes Bading called in a witch doctor to fix up his ailing stock, his failing crops, his drying well. The Hexenmeister sold him some "letters from...