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Burns on the Carpet. With an eye for the smallest detail, Johnson also found time to snuff out a smoldering-though minor-crisis that involved the reporters. Having recently discovered two cigarette burns on the carpet of his oval office, the President, who stopped smoking after his 1955 heart attack, told Secret Service men to order reporters entering the office to ditch their lighted cigarettes. He also took to thrusting ashtrays at visitors, and recently, while walking with a guest outside his office, swooped down to pick up a crushed butt and dump it in an ashtray...
...neither Leete nor Miss Boyer knows how to move onstage. Leete occasionally relaxed enough not to look pained, but Miss Boyer was obviously frightened by the smallest prop manipulations. The general staging was no help. The two principals played against fuzzy, torn transparencies in a ramshackle slatboard set that was simply disgraceful, and moved underneath two ugly purple-specked quadrangles that had absolutely no function. An engaging jazz trio that sang mocking platitudes with Gleem-bright smiles was a lonely ray of grace amid the general desolation...
...Senate has had its greater and its lesser days-and at any given time its current members usually suffer by comparison with the "giants" of a nostalgically remembered past. It has, in fact, changed and renewed itself often, reflecting the facts of American history and politics from the smallest matters of patronage to the highest questions of principle...
...House system. Professor Alfred's dinner table has become a daily institution, and many other noted Faculty members frequently eat with students in the dining hall. The relationship is very relaxed, usually on a first-name-basis. This atmosphere of informality and friendliness is typical of Harvard's smallest House. In his first year, Arthur Smithies has proved to be a devoted and popular Master. His enthusiasm and concern have greatly assisted House activities and his Sunday night beer parties are well attended...
...shoveling snow in Washington. It takes up the building of hydrogen bombs, Christmas vacations for Job Corps enrollees, postmen's rounds. It sets out the figures for developing a vaccine against syphilis and paying the pensions of 10,500 surviving veterans of the Spanish-American War. From the smallest single project ($5,000 for the Potomac River Basin Commission) to the largest ($3.6 billion to put a man on the moon), the budget bristles with insights into the nation's mood. In fiscal 1967, the U.S. will spend $820,000 on training, counseling, and other projects to improve...