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...example, the President invited 14 foreign correspondents to the White House for a snack, some drinks and conversation. The scene was the second-floor living room, generally considered to be part of the President's private quarters; flames crackled in the fireplace, cheese dips and hot hors d'oeuvres were served, and a small bar had been set up at one end of the room. After about an hour, the President conducted a tour that included his own bedroom, where mauve-brown pajamas were neatly laid out on the turned-down covers...
...were put in order. Finally, architects and artisans started the long process of finishing the house in authentic Colonial style. Magnificent flooring (wood-pegged, not nailed) was put down in the first-floor reception room and dining room. (It is singularly comforting that in an age of Sert buildings there are still craftsmen able to construct such wonderful floors.) A fine old chandelier was hung over the graceful staircase. Authentic wallpaper of the period was found for the second-floor guest room. Fireplaces were scraped down to their original brownstone. Finally, the house was furnished with as many appropriate antiques...
Some Startled Calls. It was still quite a party. After dinner, the 116 guests followed the President and his sister, Eunice Shriver, official White House hostess because of Jackie's convalescence, up to the second-floor balcony for the show. After the marching and the bagpipes, the fireworks began bursting and blasting on the South Lawn. It was a magnificent display, although it did startle some Washingtonians who phoned newspapers and police stations to find out what all the noise was about...
...review. Tribesmen galloped through the streets, wearing brass-trimmed bandoleers, with curved, wide-bladed djambias thrust into their brocaded belts. They were followed by camel troops, native levies in skirts and armed with muskets dating back to Napoleon, and new army recruits in crumpled khaki uniforms. From the second-floor window of his headquarters, the architect of the revolution, Brigadier General Abdullah Sallal, cried: "The corrupt monarchy which ruled for a thousand years was a disgrace to the Arab nation and to all humanity. Anyone who tries to restore it is an enemy...
...most of the world's bullion trading is done on the London market-and the pattern for world prices is set there. Every working day in solemn ritual, dark-suited representatives of the five London firms authorized by the British government to deal in bullion meet in a second-floor room of the House of Rothschild. Signaling any changes in their offers by raising tiny British flags, "the fixers" spend about ten minutes arriving at the opening bullion price for the day. Thereafter the price fluctuates according to orders received, but any really major swings are prevented...