Word: rug
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...futile effort to keep the U.S. from cutting off secret arms aid, Kurdish General Mustafa Barzani gave three valuable Oriental rugs and a gold and pearl necklace to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Wife Nancy when they were married in 1974. Brent Scowcroft, the President's national security adviser, said that actually one rug and one necklace had been received and both had been promptly turned over to the White House, as required...
...back of 54 Dunster Street is a small lead frame with the stained glass image of a carrot and stick superimposed upon a square Crimson H. The office itself is a brown study of spartan furnshings and dusky bookishness. The start Harvard armchairs, the large and brooding rug, the huge oak-slab desk spattered with papers, the shelves of volumes bound in lusterless red--all bear the bloodless mark of a collection that has had to depend for its light on a tiny ration of western sun that filters past the Institute of Politics and through the great window. Finally...
...weeks and hundreds of dollars of rug cleaner later, the University is just beginning to tell how extensive the damages were...
...cheek. So does Ayckbourn. He offers three views of the hectic 48 hours-in three different plays, which must be seen on different nights. The first, Table Manners, is about what happens in the dining room when it is not happening on the family hearth rug in No. 2, Living Together, or in the bushes in No. 3, Round and Round the Garden. Do not be alarmed. It is nothing like the Ring. The comedies interweave with the boisterous precision of a Scottish reel, and finally yield a picture of family life at once riotous and desolate...
...hand the Republican right will be placated?at least tentatively and temporarily?by Rockefeller's withdrawal. With Rocky gone, said Republican Governor James E. Holshouser Jr. of North Carolina, "it will now be more difficult to mount a conservative challenge." Added a Ford campaign aide: "We pulled the rug out from under the Republicans who have been holding out. Now we can say, 'If you want to have an influence on the ticket, you'd better get in line...