Word: rugs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bruno Pagliai-Merle Oberon, that is-padded prettily across the rug, with its fanciful design of chimpanzee, parrot and elephant, on her way to the telephone ringing in the bookcase behind a Chinese print. "Yes, darling, I know," she cooed happily. "They say the weather is simply frightful just about everywhere in the world...
Diversification is now a top item on Singer's agenda. Earlier this year, Scripto acquired Modern Carpet Industries Inc., a Georgia-based rug manufacturer, thus expanding into a field that Carl Singer knows well: the booming $15 billion-a-year home-furnishings industry. Singer intends, after building up capital for about a year, to look around actively for other fields far beyond both writing instruments and cigarette lighters...
...program for political purposes-"both in the same poker game, and both have the same marked deck." New Jersey Republican Peter Frelinghuysen taunted Democrats about difficulties at some OEO centers (TIME, July 16). "Many mistakes have been made," Frelinghuysen said, "yet we try to brush them under the rug. This program does not deserve an additional penny...
Died. Gertrude Clarke Whittall, 97, Washington patron of the arts who, after the death of her husband, wealthy Rug Manufacturer Matthew Whittall, in 1922, began the first of many endowments by presenting five priceless Stradivari instruments and Tourte bows to the Library of Congress, at the same time establishing a $1,225,000 Whittall Foundation to sponsor concerts (admission price: 25?) at which they would be played, and in later years a $644,000 Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund for readings and lectures; of complications following a hip injury; in Washington...
...automation question is a challenge that both unions and management must meet," said Labor Lawyer Ted Kheel, who had been sent by Mayor Robert Wagner to help arrange the latest truce. "The issue has not been swept under the rug with this settlement. And if there isn't success with this question soon, both sides will be losers...