Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the speechmaking, a corps of 40 uniformed guides took guests on a tour of. the labor palace. They saw a 472-seat auditorium decorated in 23-karat gold leaf and equipped for CinemaScope and Vista-Vision, a walnut-paneled conference room with a large pear-shaped table, an executives' dining room with television and canned music, a coffee room, private shower baths for top officials, wood-paneled offices for all bigwigs. There were oil paintings, lobbies walled in Aurisina Fiorito marble, ashtrays costing $7.50 apiece on the conference tables, and bronze boxes for outgoing mail ($17.50 apiece...
After high school, George, who loved the farm but always wanted to be a reporter, went to work for the Clarksville (Tenn.) Leaf-Chronicle. He went into the Army in 1943. A reconnaissance sergeant in the field artillery, he worked as a forward observer with the infantry after he was commissioned on the battlefield during the Battle of the Bulge. After three years in the Army, he studied history at the University of Kentucky and finished up at Yale, where he made Phi Beta Kappa and was president of the Political Union. He was one of ten undergraduates...
...doing a trick. "Is it empty?" he asked. "Empty, empty," came the chorused reply. "There is no cheating?" "No cheating," chanted the voters, "no cheating." Sharp at 8 a.m., the official called the name of the first voter, a wizened, crippled man of 95. He limped to the palm-leaf voting booth, spread the ballot over a sandbag, hesitated for several minutes, then carefully punched a nail through the symbol of his chosen party...
Adenauer, toying with his glass of champagne, replied tartly. He could not resist a dig at the party boss, still butting in from the side. "Herr Khrushchev," said the German, "has never put a leaf in front of his mouth ... It is not his manner." "But I don't carry rocks in my pocket," retorted Khrushchev. "We are going home," the Chancellor concluded, "convinced that our visit to Moscow was of benefit." He raised his glass: "To good, friendly, and not only diplomatic relations, because diplomats are not always the best of friends...
...carries Paul Stapp. Among men who make a business of dealing with danger, he is a legend. Stapp has won a file full of awards and citations, including the Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster and, last month, the Air Force's Cheney Award for valor and self-sacrifice. He has ridden his roaring rocket sleds 29 times, personal proof that man is still master of the machines he builds. That is almost a faith with Stapp. Says he: "Man is capable of self-reproduction and even of occasional genetic improvements. He is capable of self-repair...