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When he was a reporter in the 1960s, newspapers weren't really interested in ideas like "What happens to animals at the zoo when they die? Who gets the rug?" So in 1966, Doolittle started working for the government--first at the U.S. Information Agency in Casablanca, then as the embassy press attache in Laos. "I was the Larry Speakes of the war effort in Laos," he says...
...party strategists have watched the elections "close up," they have started hedging their earlier confident predictions. Democratic Pollster Harrison Hickman warned against complacent optimism, harking back to 1982, when "Republican money pulled the rug of success from under us." Said a G.O.P. honcho: "For us to hold on in the Senate, everything has to break perfectly in a lot of states." He added soberly, "I've never seen a midterm election in which everything breaks perfectly...
...There's a limit on what U.S. companies can do to end apartheid," says a top executive of a major American company with operations in South Africa. "It is a matter for South Africans to decide. The sanctions and withdrawals could hurt the South African people by pulling the rug from under the moderates." That, of course, is the justification many U.S. firms used for opening operations in South Africa in the first place and for remaining so long. But as last week's startling reassessments showed, more and more U.S. businessmen are finding that the middle ground in South...
...given over to workshops, serious affairs that dissected humor, a daunting job since humor tends to get stubborn in the face of pathology. Mark Wade, for example, who lectured on comedy writing for kid shows, gave his listeners the ABCs of a joke. "With C you pull the rug out from under them," he explained. He brought out a monkey dummy, who said, "My sister picks on me." That...
...dealers have paid up and rolled out with their vans. The rug merchants, who pool their buying to keep the price down, have loaded their camels and saddled up. Minor dealers hover for scraps. "The closer you get to the sale, the worse the piece you want looks," says one. "You have to ignore your doubts." He looks doubtful, but he spends $250 on a Tlingit basket that he can almost certainly resell for $400. Withington knocks himself out to move a large wooden cheese box for an outrageous $300, and with a final handclap -- one clever scamp applauding himself...