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...chief passengers, the President and Mrs. Eisenhower, the entire rear third of the plane is devoted. There a softly muted green-"Eisenhower green"-strikes a note of easy relaxation: grey-green carpets on the floors, rich green gabardine on the walls, white vinyl plastic on the ceiling. In the spacious stateroom, with its bleached walnut woodwork and grey-green-striped boucle upholstery, the Eisenhowers may fasten themselves with green safety belts into two big green swivel chairs, gazing out at blue sky through green-curtained windows. At night they may retire on the two wide green divans that convert into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Travel Notes | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...Fairfield County Protective Association and Anti-Defamation League, hastily formed only a few days before, assembled in the spacious (definitely not split-level) dwelling belonging to an account executive of one of the larger New York advertising agencies. Clutching an unaccustomed cup of coffee, and reclining in a canvas chair that sagged gracefully beneath his trim figure, the host and chairman began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guys & Dols | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

Five jurymen last week trooped into a spacious, canopied gallery in Pittsburgh's dingy Carnegie Institute, eased themselves into five waiting aluminum wheelchairs, then settled back for their intense, 2½-day task. All about them was the hand-picked selection of work by 328 artists from 23 countries about to be exhibited in this year's 40th Pittsburgh International, oldest (since 1896) and most prestigious U.S. international art show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Lost Generation | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...when they erased the deficit by winning the next three games, the Dodgers' hopes were still dim. Those three victories came in their own cozy Ebbets Field, where the fences are in easy range for hitters. But the seventh series game, the payoff, was to be played in spacious Yankee Stadium, the vast Bronx lot out of which no hitter, not even Babe Ruth, ever drove a baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Joy in Brooklyn | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

...Lafayette, Ind., elementary students returned to classes this month in a handsome, fully equipped school erected especially to serve the needs of the city's rapidly growing Edgelea area (two new homes a day). Through its eight spacious rooms trouped the youngsters, bubbling over with amazement at the rubber-cushioned seats, green blackboards, tinted glass walls. But nothing about Edgelea's new school was more amazing than the fact that five weeks before it had not existed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prefab School Days | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

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