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...that does not mean he fails to show emotion. On the day that Army I, the presidential helicopter, lifted Richard Nixon away from the White House for the last time, Ford had to struggle to maintain his composure while he watched from the end of the red carpet on the lawn. During the hearings before his confirmation as Vice President, Ford testified in effect that it would not be proper for him-if he became President-to pardon Nixon. When Ford did just that by granting the pardon, he ended his honeymoon with the American people. But he and Nixon...
...funeral book. The atmosphere was somber, almost religious. An atonal Chinese funeral dirge seemed to intensify the silence of the mourners and the tomblike coolness of the air-conditioned hall. The chamber was filled with row upon row of white mourning wreaths. At the end of a red carpet 50 yards ahead of us stood Mao's funeral bier, a glass-topped coffin planted in a bed of bright green grasses, layered with formal yellow chrysanthemums and red hibiscuses in full bloom. Dominating that end of the hall, above rows of pine and cypress, was a giant portrait...
...urban centers of the North. Georgia, for example, working with information supplied by its Chamber of Commerce, zeroes in on "suspect companies," which are feeling the pain of ever deeper tax bites in the North. Once a year about 35 executives are given a lavish "red carpet" tour of the state. Each tour brings an average of $50 million in capital investment and 1,000 new jobs...
Elements Mixed. While waiting for their young players to season, Kansas City's management built a new 40,000-seat stadium. Built exclusively for baseball, Royals Stadium has some of the intimacy of the older parks, but also much that is new. The field is a Tartan Turf carpet; beyond the outfield fence is a 100-yd.-long wall of fountains and waterfalls...
...Richard-Ginori, customers select chinaware priced from $20 to $700 per place setting. Fashion Designer Valentino Garavani, whose ready-to-wear cocktail dresses can cost $800, has turned his Fifth Avenue boutique into an identical triplet of his Rome and Milan extravaganzas-all mirrors, brass and thick beige carpet. Mario of Florence, who sells women's shoes at from $82 to $420 a pair, operates out of a grand salon that could have been lifted from a jet-age Florentine palazzo. Roberta di Camerino's place, which specializes in sportswear and $200 velvet handbags, has the piny...