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Nixon walked into his office on his 60th birthday and discovered a magnificent bouquet of 60 red roses from his staff. "Sixty of them," he said later in admiration. "Do you know how much roses cost?" When one of the helicopter pilots who had helped fly him all over the world retired and took a job with IBM, Nixon's parting words were: "Well, good luck, get a stock option." The President's small coterie of social friends literally numbers a majority of millionaires. Nixon is not in the same financial league as his pals, but certainly...
...take a simple bouquet of forget-me-nots...
...Renoir's spiritual home was built before 1789. Almost from the start of his career, Renoir's technique and sense of construction were superb: witness the sober, Venetian expansiveness of his great tribute to Corot, Pont-des-Arts, circa 1868. Or the vigorous, limpid Still Life with Bouquet, 1871 , whose tones of gold, amber and black sum up his affinities with Impressionism - light caress ing every surface, revealing each nu ance of substance from the crackly parchment of the Japanese fan to the humid softness of the bouquet...
Pilots seem to agree. TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand interviewed several F-111 pilots last week and garnered a bouquet of testimonials. "It's like sex," said one pilot. "You don't know how great it is until you've actually tried it." Another pilot insisted, "Coming out of a fog bank in one of those valleys at that speed is something you would not believe." Comments a veteran with 17 years' experience: "I can't think of any time I've heard pilots complain about this plane. It's a magnificent machine...
ZINFANDEL, a red as heavy as a Cabernet and as fruity as a Camay; its bouquet smells faintly of raspberries...