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Last Saturday afternoon--one of this spring's sunniest and warmest--we made an abortive attempt to gain access to the balcony. On emerging from the elevator we found ourselves restricted to a plush receiving-room, walled on the view side with thick amber glass. On inquiring, we descovered that students can see the balcony only by joining the Crimson Key tours that are allowed to take people on Sunday afternoons. (It seems ironic that prospective freshmen are enticed to come to Harvard by a view that they'll never see as Harvardmen...
...complained bitterly. But Reid had one tough soldier on his side-Brigadier General Elias Wessin y Wessin, 40, the army's tank commander, who holds the unorthodox notion that military men should stick to military pursuits. With Wessin y Wessin's backing, Reid pushed some officers into plush retirement, shipped others to overseas posts or out to the boondocks. Reid himself took over as secretary of the armed forces and sprinkled the army staff with U.S.-trained officers...
...blame for this lamentable situation was laid to Nikita Khrushchev, who allegedly did not want to encourage warlike feelings among children. Pravda, on the other hand, called attention to unsold stocks of toys ($180 million worth in 1963), blamed central planners for misconstruing the public taste. "These monsters of plush, pâpier-maché, wood and stainless steel are costing the state a pretty kopeck," the paper warned...
...favorite yarn at the National Football League's plush Manhattan head quarters concerns a plaintive telegram that Commissioner Pete Rozelle received from a coach in the rival American Football League. POPE JOHN WAS A GREAT MAN, read the wire, HE RECOGNIZED THE OTHER LEAGUE. Rozelle's reply: TRUE, BUT IT TOOK 2,000 YEARS
...WESTERMANN, 42, is a Los Angeles-born rambler who usually turns out carpenter's daydreams consisting of mirrors and precision mitering. His work at the Whitney is a drum-shaped totem of wall-to-wall carpeting. Says he: "I don't know why I named it The Plush. If I liked analysis, I'd be a writer...