Word: sofas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Manhattan Attorney Richard Nixon, 50, relaxed, settled back on his office sofa, and for some 50 minutes talked freely to TIME'S New York Correspondent Nick Thimmesch about the 1964 Republican presidential nomination...
...trip to Washington neared its end last week, the mystery man met newsmen, who found him seated on a gold-embroidered sofa in the Chinese embassy. Red China, said Ching-kuo through his interpreter, is at its weakest point in history and Formosa correspondingly at its strongest. His visit was intended to bring about "common understanding" between his country and the U.S. Did that mean there were misunderstandings? Ching-kuo replied with a loud "No!" even before the question was translated. With a brisk, "That's all," the interview was concluded, and Ching-kuo drove off to Princeton...
...lined balustrade; Mrs. Jacob Javits timidly tossed just one champagne glass while her Senator husband looked on. But Mrs. Wellington Koo, sister-in-law of Chiang Kaishek, won the wreckers' honors. She took an ax to the wall, then to a chair and finally sank it in a sofa that the management had not even intended to destroy...
...office day begins with a staff conference at 9, is followed by a stream of visitors. De Gaulle is ordinarily courtly and charming, rising to greet guests as they enter. VIPs share a sofa with De Gaulle; others take a chair at a respectful distance from the desk. A visitor is often greeted with a disconcerting "Well, sir, what have you to say to me?" De Gaulle listens attentively and will reply at length if the caller interests him; if not, he cuts the interview short with a lofty Gaullism...
...indolence by harshly putting down hunger riots in the south of England. "I like what is tranquil and stable,'' he announced, and achieved tranquillity by hanging several of the leaders. He scoffed at earnest middle-class reformers, once received a group of them lounging on his sofa. While they talked, he pulled a feather out of a pillow, began to blow it about the room. "Try to do no good," Melbourne advised, "and then you won't get into any scrapes...