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From Ireland, instead of tweed and cashmere, we came home with two chests of drawers, three occasional tables, a pair of Hepplewaite-influenced chairs out of a jury room ... and the Chinese platter which now hangs in our dining room...
...host of young Londoners. Venice's 32nd brassy Biennale gave official acclaim to U.S. pop. Germany's didactic Dokumenta III then launched op. The 43rd Pittsburgh International, better known as the Carnegie, fails to find any new avantgarde, but makes up for this lack with a rich platter of hearty helpings: 401 paintings and sculptures...
...lonesome oyster got sadder and moister. Like the Theodore Roosevelts and the A. G. Vanderbilts, he lived at Oyster Bay, but not at the same altitude. He longed for the high life. Eventually, on a round silver platter, he got his wish...
...Silver Platter. All too frequently, complain restaurant owners, guests use doggie bags to haul off pilfered ashtrays, pepper mills, and silverware. A waiter in a smart West Coast spot got suspicious when a svelte woman customer actually demanded a doggie bag before taking a single bite of the sizzling steak he had just set before her. When he inquired discreetly if she were feeling unwell, she explained that her girdle was killing her; after a visit to the ladies' room, she returned to polish off the steak, her girdle doggie-bagged under her chair...
Thus Scranton was waging a war on two fronts, one against Goldwater, the other against the incumbent President. He missed no opportunity to contrast his views with Goldwater's, and Barry, with his vote against the civil rights bill, served up Scranton a golden issue on a silver platter. No sooner had Goldwater announced that he would naysay the civil rights measure than Scranton shot off a telegram. "I urge you," he wired, "to repudiate your opposition to the civil rights bill by voting yes on final passage. Your views on the subject to date are opposed...