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...Guards prevented Soviet diplomats from leaving their Peking embassy by holding a huge picture of Mao across the driveway. Other Guards rampaged through a large apartment building housing families of some 100 foreign diplomats and pasted a portrait of Mao on each apartment door. Red Guards tossed confiscated art objects, including replicas of the Venus de Milo and Apollo, onto bonfires...
...delighted by your story on West Germany's attachment to its automobiles, and so was Lucille when I went out to the driveway and read it to her. I should have skipped the part about most Germans washing their cars once a week, though, because Lucille, who is lucky if she is bathed once a month, immediately developed a rattle in the vicinity of her tail gate. In her defense, I must say that her only serious misbehavior, which occurred after I let a friend drive her, was a transmission tantrum violent enough to cause me to rent...
Bids for Sympathy. Johnson's concern with his image led, nonetheless, to a mawkish display of official grief over the death of Him, the family beagle that was run over last week by a limousine in the White House driveway. Reporters were solemnly informed of daughter Lynda Bird's reaction (she burst tearfully in on a meeting with Congressmen to tell her father), of Lady Bird's reaction ("It makes you feel you have been hit in the stomach with a hard rock"), of Lyndon's reaction ("We are having a sad time at the White...
Mustang after Mustang rolled down the Avenue of the Stars and up the gently curving driveway, past a sparkling fountain, to halt beneath the porte-cochere. On hand to help the guests alight were doormen rigged out in Beefeater suits. Inside, phalanxes of blonde, straight-haired teenagers, wearing tight pants and no shoes, padded noiselessly through the vast, thickly carpeted lobby. Standing by the automatic elevators were delicately feminine Japanese starters in long kimonos and obi sashes...
During the discussions with Rudolph, Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 read a letter from Howard Mumford Jones, Abbot Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, complaining that the fading of "No Parking" signs on Francis Ave. had resulted in the continual clogging of his driveway there...