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...colonnaded ballroom of Paris' decorous Hotel George V, some coals were brought last week to Newcastle. From California, in two specially chartered DC-45, had come manufacturers and models to show Paris the spring styles of San Francisco's up-&-coming clothing industry. The Californians hedged a plush runway with 1,600 Ibs. of chrysanthemums ("blooming three days ago in California"), set up a blinding battery of klieg lights, and surrounded the show with enough hoopla to make the French take notice...
...some 800 passengers on the westbound Minaki Special, it was summer's end; from camps and lodges of the Lake of the Woods country, they were heading for Winnipeg and home. On red and green plush seats, fathers, mothers and children drowsed, while the 13-car special, behind schedule, pounded along...
...royal palace, the Cabinet, all high-ranking Communists, gathered to watch the King make one of his rare public appearances and hear Prime Minister Petru Groza make one of his frequent speeches. Dutifully, the Communist clique gave Groza a resounding welcome. But it was silent when the red plush doors of the royal box flew open and the King strode in. Erect, unsmiling, he sat alone in the huge box, listened impassively as Groza took credit for the coup himself and pointedly failed to mention even once the role played by Michael...
...many a plush hotel where the British dinner jacket once gave the evening scene the aspect of a penguins' conclave, the dhoti (loin cloth), sherwani (tunic), jibba (smock) and achkan (long coat) now held pride of place. Rohini Kumar Chowdhry, Assam's long-haired, wild-eyed member of the Constituent Assembly, demanded a special clause in the new Constitution's bill of rights to forbid any hotel displaying "Evening Clothes Only...
...Brazilian Government thought it had just the place for the oft-postponed Inter-American Conference, now scheduled for next month. The place was Quitandinha, the plush resort hotel just outside the summer capital of Petropolis. But the Government had hardly announced its choice when foreign correspondents let out a loud squawk...