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...maintenant," shouts the announcer triumphantly, "voici Les Bluebells!" Out from the wings prance 17 abundantly healthy girls, strenuously smiling. They are big, leggy and bosomy. They can do a cakewalk; they can swivel through a Charleston to the music of Yes, We Have No Bananas and Ain't She Sweet? They can shimmy, shake and kick their legs in perfect unison. Then they race into the wings to ruffles, flourishes and fanfares in the orchestra and table thumping applause from the audience in the world-famed Lido of Paris...
...records -drum recitals, incoming tides (on the flip side: outgoing tides), the sound of an olive dropping into a martini, an album called Music to Listen By, a Ping-pong game in which the illusion of the moving ball was vivid enough to make a listener's head swivel...
There was never any question about who would succeed Mr. Sam in the Speaker's high-backed swivel chair for the remainder of the session. For the eleventh time during his 17 years as House majority leader, Democrat John McCormack of Massachusetts was for mally elected as Speaker pro tern. Since there is little legislation pending that is likely to demand Mr. Sam's presence, McCormack will run the House until it adjourns toward the end of September. If Rayburn's health were to cause his resignation this session, McCormack would be the automatic choice...
AmSeCo set up years ago one of industry's first testing and research labs that now helps it keep its edge over competition. In the AmSeCo torture chamber, a swivel chair gets 200,000 swivels before it is pronounced serviceable, fabrics are doused with artificial perspiration, and all upholstered chairs must withstand Squirming Irma-a wooden model of a human buttocks that wriggles lifelike in the seat. Out of the lab come new products, some of which take the company beyond the glutens maximus. Items...
...that even the Medicis might have envied. The golden carpeting for the 17th floor executive offices came from Hong Kong. SOM designed tables to conform to the disciplined lines of the building; the chairs ranged from Mies van der Rohe's elegant Barcelona model to the stubby leather swivel chairs designed by Ward Bennett-who also advised on color and office appointments. Many of the textiles used are handwoven, come from as far away as Thailand...