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...worked feverishly wiring 40,000 artificial appleblossoms to a score of real trees. Inside the entrance, four sequined, papier-mâché peacocks bore signs proclaiming: WE'RE PROUD AS A PEACOCK TO BE IN HARTFORD. This week the building opened its doors with a peacock-proud flourish: ten gallons of Arpege perfume (retails at $23.50 an ounce) were sprayed around the entrance...
...commission must be signed by the President and countersigned by the Secretary of State. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was sworn first, and his commission was countersigned by interim Secretary H. Freeman Matthews. Thereafter, Dulles countersigned for the other Cabinet members with a rare and wonderful flourish, thus...
...this general belief to Harvard. "The only thing you really need in a University," he states, "is ideas, and an administrator's job is partly to see that a Faculty and student body capable of having ideas are selected and partly to create an environment in which ideas can flourish...
...about the size of Florida-is tropical forest covering mountains up to 7,000 feet high. In this jungle, inhabited by tigers, elephants, bison, monkeys, gibbons, deer and bear, alive with all manner of insects, including malaria-bearing mosquitoes, bloodsucking leeches, pythons and multicolored birds, where orchids and rhododendron flourish, there is hidden an army of about 5,000 Communist guerrillas...
...Corwin. Moreover, he added, some researchers fear that they may release a group of compounds called porphyrins. If porphyrins get into the bloodstream, they can make a patient so sensitive to light that he must spend months in a darkened room. (A white mouse injected with porphyrins may flourish in the dark, but will drop dead the instant it is exposed to the light-shock of a photo flashbulb.) Since no such accidents to humans have been reported, Dr. Corwin concludes that the chlorophyll products are not getting into the bloodstream...