Word: spotlessness
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...used to say. That was in the '30s, when "circus" was a word with magic, when kids impatiently waited through the year until the big tent went up again. And what they waited for most was the instant when a trim, 5-ft. 6-in. man, dressed in spotless white shirt and breeches with soft leather belt, bounded into the spotlight of the center ring and doffed his pith helmet. Then, whip in his right hand, a steel-reinforced chair plus blank-loaded pistol in his left, he would summon the first ferocious cat into the cage...
...because I haven't let it become so," says Mrs. Alden G. Pearce of Beverly Hills. "Housework is like whisky-it keeps." Adds one Van Nuys, Calif., housewife: "I would be completely ashamed if any of my friends caught me off guard with my house completely tidy and spotless. It would look as though I didn't have anything better to do than stay home and clean...
...fairness to New Jersey's popcorn playpen, the resort has much to offer: vast, spotless beaches where no eating, drinking, "disrobing" or ball playing is allowed; miles of boardwalk ideal for cool-hour bicycling (from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. only); an excellent golf course. Its 24-hour jitney bus service at 20? a ride is one of the best and chummiest rapid-transit systems anywhere. And for slow-slow transit, the boardwalk's famed "rolling chairs," both motorized and hand-propelled, give jaded visitors the most opulent ride this side of a ricksha. Moreover, Atlantic City...
...part of the full-honors retirement ceremony, Taylor reviewed the troops, stopping occasionally to talk with a soldier, inspected some howitzers and found them spotless. That done, he received from McNamara his third oakleaf cluster in lieu of a fourth Distinguished Service Medal. Said McNamara, borrowing the title of Taylor's The Uncertain Trumpet, his post-retirement analysis of U.S. defense ills: "Maxwell Taylor has never sounded an uncertain trumpet. He will always be one of the first to whom we turn with the hard tasks, the great challenges...
...Mateo County looked like a snap. Public health traditionally has been concerned mainly with vaccinations and microbes-small problems in San Mateo. The water was good; the war-exploded population, 95% white, consisted mainly of well-educated, well-paid business and professional people. The women kept spotless kitchens and conscientiously took their well-scrubbed children to the pediatrician for inoculations. What was there for a public health officer...