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...Careful gave Carrot a battery-powered bug in a walnut-covered container to match the bookcase. It was 13 in. long, 1½ in. wide and ½ in. deep and contained a microphone and a transmitter that could be activated by an outside high-frequency signal to broadcast conversations from deep inside State Department offices. No sooner was the meeting over than Mrkva gingerly handed the bug to waiting FBI agents...
...parents on their 80-acre farm in Ames, Iowa. In the fall of 1964, Painter married his second wife, Marylyn, an artist, a Phi Beta Kappa Berkeley graduate and a former Red Cross worker in Japan and Korea. The newlyweds moved into a ramshackle old Victorian house in Walnut Creek near San Francisco and concentrated on turning it into a warm, imaginatively decorated home for themselves and Mark. Formerly night copy editor of the Oakland Tribune, Painter switched to freelance writing and became a $167-a-week designer of visual aids at the 2,000-boy Job Corps center...
Post-Civil War America was a graceless murk of brownstones, soft-coal soot and ungainly walnut furniture. It was Victorian without even the fun of having royalty, and Critic Lewis Mumford summed up the period in a phrase, "the Brown Decades." By contrast, Europe attracted droves of artists in search of more romantic sensibilities. Of these exiles, none found herself more at home in France, while remaining essentially as American as a Henry James heroine, than Mary Cassatt. As her palette brightened, she became the only U.S. expatriate accepted by the fiercely iconoclastic French impressionists, and was invited to show...
...month star boarder reads movie magazines, performs isometric exercises, chain-smokes Camels while he chain-watches TV, and whips up his favorite recipes on the hot plate. He also spends considerable time fussing with his greying hair, which was dyed henna for his Senate scenes and is now walnut brown. "I put a big dent in Cosa Nostra," he says, "and I'm enjoying...
...Duke team has ever staged"-a little regretfully, perhaps, because showmanship is not Vic's cup of tea. (Nor Michigan's apparently, because the demoralized Wolverines went out and got clobbered again, 79-64, by little Butler.) "Basketball should be businesslike," says Bubas, and from his walnut-paneled executive suite on the Durham, N.C., campus, he directs Duke's basketball fortunes with the crisp efficiency of an investment banker. Practice sessions are timed to the second and preceded by staff meetings that would, remarked one observer, "make a Cabinet session appear spontaneous...