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...their own 5½-room rental apartment on East 30th Street in Kips Bay, one of Manhattan's better-designed (by I.M. Pei) new buildings. Side by side with antiques that they picked up on foreign travels, the couple have put such odds and ends as a polarbear rug, a $10 coffee table and a butcher's table (in the dining room). To help soften the chilling effect of a lot of glass, including Shaw's mercury glass collection. Pat Suzuki introduced warm fabric colors, contemporary Spanish chests and floor pillows, and picked up a few Japanese...
...Great American Desert shrinks beneath the vast sky like a tiny golden prayer rug in a blue tremendous temple, and as the little black dart leaps gleaming into outer darkness the mind thrills at a vision of the supernal machine...
...that the party was doomed if it accepted the "freakish ideas" of those who sought to "repudiate the 20th century." Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall told a Seattle audience: "We won't survive by saying 'I won't play' - or by finding an enemy under every rug." Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, who got a two-minute ovation when he was introduced to a crowd of 13,000 in Cincinnati, pleaded for unity: "Let's forget about being Nixon Republicans or Rockefeller Republicans -stop trying to pigeon hole ourselves. We're not far apart...
...operates like a huge, carpeted Escalator without steps. An upward-moving belt covered with a rug of white Caprolan fiber makes a ski area approximately 20 ft. by 55 ft. Wearing 30-in. "shortee" skis, the skier pushes off from the top of the platform, makes headway against the moving belt, which literally pulls the rug out from under him at speeds that can vary to simulate different slopes and snow conditions. The pile in the rug is thick enough to act something like snow, permitting the skier to execute all the standard turns...
...boys race to U.S. oilfield fires in flame-red Lincoln Continentals, fly in jet comfort to more distant alarms, and often collect as much as $20,000 plus expenses for a single job. For all his flamboyance-he indulges his fondness for red in his coveralls, safety helmets, office rug and secretary's hair-Adair is methodical about his business, carefully notes and catalogues everything he learns from a fire "so as to have a little nugget handy in our minds to lick a problem next time it shows...