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...afternoon, and the Bantu houseboy is in the living room cleaning the carpet. Someone has left the TV on. The boy looks up at the screen, sees a chorus line of white girls in scanty costumes. Suddenly seized by lust, he runs upstairs and rapes the lady of the house...
...Wall-to-wall carpeting is creeping into the kitchen-and making surprising sense there. The Roxbury Carpet Co. has developed a dense, shallow-pile nylon carpet in twelve colors, bonded to a three-sixteenths-inch sponge rubber backing that is so resistant to most stains that they can be easily removed with a wet sponge. Burned areas may be cut out and replaced without showing edges or a patched look. Eliminated are the hazards of slippery floors, the work of polishing to make them slippery, the breakage of any dropped plate or glass, and the fatigue of the stand...
From the day Bobby began his campaign two months ago, the Kennedy name worked its magic. The carpet bagger issue faded. In towns where Keating drew only 25 people, the former U.S. Attorney General pulled 2,000. In Buffalo, 100,000 turned out. Many were squealing teen-agers-but there were also throngs of voting-age women. In the background, a smooth, tough Kennedy machine worked like a greased piston. And the Johnson coattail helped. In upstate New York, where Republicans normally outvote Democrats two-to-one, Kennedy won half the votes and robbed Keating of a crucial...
...bringing in his own team laid him open to charges of carpet bagging, it has been an excellent move in other ways. It seems to be a Kennedy trait to appoint good men, and RFK has come up with some excellent advisors. Many, like him, are Harvard graduates. Many are men who have worked with him or years and whom he has now brought with him from the Justice Department to New York...
...world's 16th largest line-and the only profit-making airline in the Arab world. Last week it reported record 1963 revenues of $70 million and earnings of more than $1,000,000, figures that make it the most successful Arab aerial enterprise since the flying carpet...