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...Aeroflot TU-114 turboprop before the Cuban people were told that he was gone. Even to his Russian hosts, Fidel Castro's visit seemed a surprise. Only two welcoming banners could be seen hanging in the 21° cold at Vnukovo airport. But out rolled a Red carpet, and Premier Nikita Khrushchev was on hand to snuggle into the beard when the Maximum Leader came bounding down the ramp...
Winning a Nobel Prize is a risky business. People are always laying bear traps and carpet tacks in your path, and there is no doubt that it takes a physical as well as mental giant to collect his rightful prize. The Prize is to be commended for laying bare this little known side of the famous Swedish award...
Fast Lessons. His individualism is just right for Agent Bond, who makes steely love, is a wine snob, and likes to rub people out without spilling blood on the carpet. But Bond is a phony and Connery is not. Bond flashes his acquired taste for champagne, but Connery just orders beer. Connery goes around Hollywood in new Levi's and sweatshirts. Just before the recent arrival of his wife (Actress Diane Cilento) and their two children, he moved into a $1,000-a-month Bel Air house carrying nothing but a small suitcase and a carton of groceries...
Chief villain is the rich wall-to-wall carpeting, without which no new office is self-respecting. The deeper the pile, the worse the shock-particularly if the material has a high synthetic fiber content, which gives a carpet outstanding durability but equally outstanding shock qualities. Next comes wool, with cotton at the bottom of the shock list. A com pounding factor is the increasing prevalence of metal desks, typing tables and wall trimmings, which are brisk conductors of any static charges that anybody can scuff up. Driest days are the worst. When the humidity falls below 20%, executives view...
...available antistatic sprays, which are similar to preparations for neutralizing phonograph records, are only temporarily effective and tend to leave a tacky residue that makes them get dirty more easily. The third method is to weave copper wires into the warp and woof of the carpet and then ground the whole thing onto a convenient water or radiator pipe. Since this adds about $1 to the cost per yard, it is too expensive for most offices...