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...Mets uniform. One had him winking at a washing machine; another showed him bunting a baseball and selling beer with Miss Rheingold. That was too much for Frick, who has rules against uniformed ballplayers, even old ones, endorsing alcoholic beverages. He called Stengel on the carpet, added insult to injury by reminding him: "If Casey is going to teach bunting, he should be a little more careful to keep his eye on the ball. It's behind him in the picture...
...that God's truth in the Bible was like a seal and "the human heart was like wax that receives the imprint of the seal." Another early teacher, Samuel Miller, endlessly lectured students on such matters of etiquette as why they should not spit tobacco juice on the carpet. "I have known a few tobacco chewers in whom this habit had reached such a degree of concentrated virulence," he wrote, "that they even compelled persons of delicate feelings, especially females, to leave the room, or the pew, and retire in haste to avoid sickness of stomach...
...their exploiters." Last week Goulart, now Pres ident of Latin America's biggest and most important nation, arrived in Washington for a seven-day visit to the U.S. A 21 -gun salute greeted him as he stepped from his 707 jet, and at the end of the red carpet stood President Kennedy. Said Kennedy: "We look to the future with hope. Our hope comes in part because of the leader ship that you are giving to your own great country." Moderate & Reassuring. The enthusiastic welcome for the new Joao Goulart was accompanied by only a few twinges about...
Faced with a Communist guerrilla uprising in Malaya in 1948, the British prepared for a long piecemeal war. While infantry patrols harried the Reds in the impenetrable jungle, the British used a "carpet sweeper" technique on the jungle's edges: gathering up peasants from isolated huts and hamlets and concentrating them in walled "strategic" villages protected by troops and home guards...
Last week Kennedy did more warding off by proclaiming steep increases in tariffs on some kinds of carpets and glass. The increases had been recommended by the Tariff Commission, but the President was under no legal obligation to put them into effect. By doing so, he stirred predictable resentment in Europe and Japan, and cast doubt upon the sincerity of his own trade bill-but he also helped to win the votes of Congressmen with carpet or glassmaking plants in their districts...