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...most heavily traded stocks on the New York Stock Exchange last week was that of a little Philadelphia rug firm, the Artloom Carpet Co. From a low of $3.75 a share earlier this year, Artloom has soared to a high of $27.63, even though Artloom's business has been as threadbare as a boardinghouse hall carpet. Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission lifted the rug to see what went on, found an old familiar face in an old familiar pattern of action...
Psychoneurosis Must Go! But then the Arabs were heard from. On the second day of the General Assembly debate, new Jordanian Delegate Abdul Monem Rifai, brother to Jordanian Premier Samir el Rifai, did his best to pull the rug out from under one of the essential elements in any Middle East settlement. Jordan, declared Rifai, was flatly opposed to "the dispatch of U.N. forces or U.N. observers to be stationed on Jordan territory." But since young King Hussein's government would almost surely collapse overnight without foreign support, the question...
...results. Once he tried to run over a stubborn employer. Said another: "You don't give him arguments." By brutal methods (see box) and by picketing until employers anted up money, Kierdorf was successfully negotiating one way or another with every type of company, from sausage makers to rug layers. He might have enemies angry enough to roast him alive...
...House Press Secretary James Hagerty efficiently checked with Boss Adams, quickly assured reporters that the whole thing was a false alarm. Sure, Adams got the clubs for nothing, but not from his "old and dear friend" Goldfine, donor of the vicuña coat and the $2,400 Oriental rug. The club-giver turned out to be a Massachusetts theater-chain owner named Sam Goldstein. "He is a very old personal friend of Mr. Adams," explained Hagerty-and that was that...
...Instructor at the military academy, Nasser married the daughter of a Cairo rug merchant. Nasser saw no World War II action. The British had reoccupied Egypt, ringed Farouk's palace with tanks, made the King accept their nominee for wartime Premier...