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...Somebody got stuck." snorted Milton Glaser, president of the American Institute of Interior Designers, when he heard that $12,500 had been donated to scrape up for the White House some antique wallpaper-still available new in France-for which salvage rights had cost only $50. "Some people like old broken things because they are old and broken down; maybe Mrs. Kennedy is one of them." The supposition produced the first crack in the pale porcelain exterior of Pamela Turnure, 23, the First Lady's decorative press secretary. The remarks, said she, are "undignified and highly inappropriate." Retreated Glaser...
...bird, God appears, dressed in white robes. "Please give me a piece of your turkey," God beseeches. "I am so very hungry." Macario refuses, runs deeper into the woods. But just as he opens his mouth to eat the bird, Death appears, dressed in a black scrape...
...fact is that South Korea's newspapers, after a year of heady freedom under ousted Premier John M. Chang, are thoroughly cowed. Hard put to scrape up news that will not offend the tough, jaunty officers who run the country, they dutifully print government handouts verbatim, sometimes run ads two or three times, at no extra charge, simply to fill space. Fortnight ago, when the respected Hankook Ilbo indiscreetly printed a telegram criticizing retired U.S. General James A. Van Fleet's visit at the junta's invitation (TIME, July 28), it was ordered...
...that the Harvard scholarship scale can be very tough on the middle-income family. "A middle-income job requires a certain standard of living--the money for spending is not great," he concedes. "A considerate kid may have a real problem." Still, he adds, "you have people who will scrape...
Scrapie is a disease of the nerves and muscles of sheep, so named because bleating victims rub themselves against fence posts or wire to relieve the itching that goes with it, and in doing so scrape off valuable wool. In later stages the animals get the shakes and staggers, so the French call the disease la tremblante. Last week veterinary researchers were engaged in a transatlantic argument over whether scrapie is hereditary or infectious, or-as would be scientifically most exciting-whether it has features of both. Medical investigators from New York to New Guinea were as keenly interested...