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Last week Athens reported heavy troop movements and concentrations in Yugoslavia's Vardar Valley, north of Greece. It seemed likely that all such activity would stop before the Security Council investigators could get within gunshot. If Greece's northern neighbors should hastily sweep everything under the rug, it would be up to the investigators to lift the rug...
...corporation profits, who could predict what they would be in 1947? Strikes, for instance, would pull the rug out from under the best of prospects. The shaky state of the stockmarket, which Nathan brushed off as merely "bad psychology," reflected industry's deep concern...
...Some rugs enter the U.S. under a 40% tariff. But any rug with fringe around it is classified as "an article made in whole or in part of fringe." The duty on that...
Maurice Maeterlinck, in pain with a broken arm after a trip over a rug in his Manhattan apartment, was still sticking to his last at 84. Except for the arm, the author of The Blue Bird was fine, reported his wife. What was he currently engaged in? "Planning happiness...
...captains, $10 to waiters, up to $5 to busboys, with an extra $1 each for winning smiles). Reputed to be a soft touch for any & all hard-luck stories, he favors midnight blue shirts with white silk ties, drives a black Lincoln limousine equipped with siren, white bearskin rug, New York license plate (MH 1) and bulletproof glass (gift of a former gangster acquaintance). Hollywood also reveres Hellinger for his seemingly inexhaustible stock of excellent liquor, his fondness for intricate practical jokes and his small superstitions...