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...collection which he works at with as much archaeological curiosity as artistic love. Even the dog he gave the late Queen Louise is a Pekinese named Eisei, and she laps water from a modern Scandinavian imitation of an ancient Chinese stoneware bowl placed on a square of Chinese carpet in the palace's museum room...
...that had ever landed at Baneasa Airport. In mysterious Rumanian fashion, the government would not reveal its plans for the visit until after the plane had touched down. The Rumanians were not unfriendly-they provided a police escort from the airport, and later rolled out a yellow VIP carpet for the reception with First Deputy Premier Alexandru Birladeanu...
...against the tender, stretched skin that might have become ulcerated. Though the operation to push the protruding gut back and close the rupture securely is not dangerous, it demands exquisitely delicate dissection and needlework because the muscle fibers are layered and crisscrossed like the Warp and woof of a carpet...
...Robert Mattson--who would be up for reelection in 1966. But in late October a federal grand jury charged 17 involved in the case, including Rolvaag's state insurance commissioner, with fraud. Republicans wanted to know why Rolvaag hadn't acted earlier, and the case was swept under the carpet where it will officially remain until the post-election trial of the accused...
Television, which once seemed a magic carpet to elective office, seems to have lost some of its talismanic quality, and is least effective in local races. More than ever, the ingredients of political success are charisma, stamina-and lucre. Indeed, whether or not inflation proves a telling issue with the voters in November, politicians agree that the cost of campaigning has soared almost beyond reason...