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...second room the decorations are more elaborate. One wall is painted in the vivid colors of a stage, with tall, narrow side doors standing ajar, and leering comic masks peeking through small windows. Large central openings show gardenlike vistas. On top of the stage are small, blue glass vessels. Perspective and brushwork are so skilled that the scene has startling depth...
When the Russians threw the gates of Russia slightly ajar to tourists three years ago, they were amazed at the flood of tourists that flocked in to see for themselves (150,000 last year). But they were shocked to discover that their Western visitors considered their best hotels none too good, and their second-best downright deplorable. The rooms were stuffy, the beds hard, the service sluggish, and there were no stoppers for the bathtubs, grumbled the European and U.S. visitors...
Stevenson has announced on a dozen different occasions that he does not choose to run in 1960. "I will not seek the Democratic nomination this year," he said emphatically on a New York TV show last week. But he carefully leaves a door ajar, and he has told friends that if the Democratic convention should draft him for the nomination he would not refuse. No one who talks to Stevenson doubts that he will stay clear of the fight; his old bruises from the rough and tumble 1956 state primaries still pain him. But granted the purest of motives...
...disappointed, Department of Justice lawyers may appeal. They well recall that the Supreme Court has reversed LaBuy once before on the case; it upset his 1954 ruling that Du Font's control of G.M. did not violate the Clayton Act. Last week LaBuy himself left the door slightly ajar. He noted that several bills are pending in Washington to ease the tax bite of an enforced stock distribution. If a bill should pass, said the judge, his decision is open for "review and reconsideration...
...door to an escape from blobdom is left slightly ajar. For while oblivion is the goal, simple consciousness, and life itself, is against it. Mahood's last cry from his jar of sawdust is: "You must...