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...fixed later, plus a $10 million bonus thrown in by the U.S.). The U.S., whose policy is to let the British have their way in Iran, let them have their way. A Western diplomat in Teheran wryly remarked that bargaining with Mossadegh reminded him of a Persian rug dealer who keeps upping his price each time he opens his mouth. The analogy might be apt, but unless Washington and London make some real effort to get Mossy's carpet while it is still for sale, the dealers in the Kremlin may still pick it up free...
...daylight Dominici took a walk along the riverbank in the direction of a car he had seen parked by the road the evening before. Beside the river he stumbled over the body of a small girl in pajamas, her skull shattered. Dominici sprinted toward the car. Under a plaid rug, among the roadside weeds, he found the body of a woman dressed in a kimona. Across the road, under an overturned camp cot, he found the bullet-pierced body of an elderly man in blue pajama pants...
...sell at minimum prices can force all other merchants in their state to observe the same minimums, whether they sign up or not. Thus Congress and the President had legalized the same mandatory signing clause which the U.S. Supreme Court had tossed out 14 months ago, pulling the rug from under Fair Trade...
...price increase. This was $1.50 more than the steel companies were entitled to under the Capehart amendment, plus a 70? allowance for higher freight rates. It was also just about what ex-Mobilizer Charlie Wilson had proposed four months ago, before Harry Truman pulled the rug out from under...
...Millions of Americans, already considering it their right to be present at major news events through TV, resented having the committee shut them out. The committee's action backfired in one case, when an enterprising radio reporter smuggled a microphone into the room (hiding the wire under the rug), recorded some anti-Taft testimony, which was later broadcast.* Outside, TV cameras caught the grim faces of three guards posted at the closed door...