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...works at least 14 hours a day. About 10, he gets up, bathes, shaves, douses himself with Bain de Champagne perfume, wraps himself in a six-foot-square Turkish towel and drips across the costly Aubusson tapestry rug on his bedroom floor. He sits down at his three bedroom phones (one gilded). There he starts the day's business. He rarely reaches the office before 2 p.m., frequently drifts home from Toots Shor's or the Stork Club after...
...picture recently pointed up Soviet preoccupation with that region. Obviously designed to please the strategically scattered Moslem millions, it showed faithful Mohammedans bent in prayer at a Moscow mosque. Soviet iconography included another striking symbol of the strange alliance and devious devotions of which Soviet policy is capable: a rug from Ashkhabad (capital of the Turkomen Soviet Socialist Republic), into which was woven the likeness of the late Prophet Karl Marx...
Last week Labor Leaders William Green, Philip Murray and Walter Reuther stamped across the turkey-red rug. Green refused to admit that there had been any abuses by labor of its power. Murray declaimed: "Rape is being perpetrated on the people." Reuther declared: "Free enterprise will survive only if it can be made to work...
...immediate result was clear. With the marines' withdrawal, the U.S. would be in a better moral position than ever before to insist that its only aim is to encourage a united, democratic China. It would yank the rug from under vociferous U.S. and foreign Communists who had been loudly shouting "U.S. imperialism" (and whose first, triumphant approval last week seemed to contradict their reputation for shrewdness). It would also quash the slightly ridiculous charge that a few thousand marines were intended as a show of force against the massive Russian Far Eastern armies...
...started chasing me across the rug a nice rug it was too. i retired underneath a deep leather couch but he was very unpleasant and crawled on his hands and knees mind you after me very boorish he was. he made a scene and a lot of other men stood around and gawped. i was embarrassed...