Word: rugs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...astronaut who received the highest margin that Ohio voters have given a Senate candidate in the past 40 years. Glenn has been running for the Senate for ten years. In 1964 he challenged aging Democratic Senator Steven Young, but withdrew from the race after he slipped on a bathroom rug and began to suffer dizzy spells. In 1970 he tried again, but he was still running as a space hero; he lost in the primary to Howard Metzenbaum who was defeated by Republican Robert Taft Jr. Then Glenn sensibly undertook the business of being a politician. He ran a citizens...
Between the Nixon resignation and the Cyprus crisis, Henry Kissinger stood in his huge domain on the seventh floor at the State Department and actually let his mind wander from statecraft. "What do you think of this rug?" he asked a visitor, pointing at a handsome Oriental that had been laid over the broad and lifeless expanse of beige G.I. carpeting. "Nancy thought I needed something to break things up. It's a little too busy...
Carpeted Bug Sir / Re your Texas "Letterbugs" [April 22]: there's a VW rolling around Portland. Me., with plates that read RUG BUG. It's fully carpeted-on the outside...
While visiting San Francisco last week, Nelson T. Shields IV, 23, of Greenville, Del., enjoyed a game of lacrosse with friends, then gave a fellow player a hand in moving a rug. Still clad in his playing shorts, sweatshirt and tennis shoes, he leaned over the trunk of a car to make room for the rug, when three fatal pistol shots whizzed seemingly out of nowhere and hit him in the back. Shields' death was the twelfth in the series of bizarre, random "Zebra" attacks -apparently not linked with the S.L.A.-that have plagued the city for 21 terrifying...
...residential area. To the right, a small rowboat drifts lazily on a pond set among grassy walkways and elaborate shubbery. To the left stand weather-beaten houses crushed together on littered asphalt streets. A middle-aged woman stands in her musty living room, the wallpaper peeling and the rug spotted with stains. She buttons the coat of her seven-year-old boy and looks over to her other three children: "Now, are we all ready?" They walk out the door, with the mother in front, then down three flights of dark creaking stairs and out into the street, on their...