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...York: Baroque, Chambord, Pavilion, "21"; Dallas: La Vieille Varsovie; Los Angeles: Perino's; San Francisco: Fleur de Lys; Chicago: Café Bonaparte, Maison Lafite, Red Carpet; New Orleans: Les Patisseries aux Quatre Saisons...
...Boeing 707 had barely rolled to a stop at Bangkok's Don Muang Airport last week when the tall, tanned Texan set to work. Looking straight across the welcoming red carpet at Thailand's tough little Premier Sarit Thanarat, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson declared: "We will honor our commitments for the cause of freedom. We will stand by our friends. We will not falter, Mr. Prime Minister. We will not fail...
...Carpet. Jim Moran believes that service is the dealer's own responsibility. "This is an area," he says, "that many auto dealers have ignored for some time-and it is the only way you can get repeat business in this competitive market." After each car is sold, Moran sends a form letter to the buyer inviting him to report on his service. He assigns a service superintendent for each new car, calls him on the carpet-and sometimes fires him-if too many things go wrong...
AFRICA. President Kennedy made it a point to give the red-carpet treatment to Ghana's visiting President Kwame Nkrumah, who, only last fall, was given short shrift by Former Secretary of State Christian Herter (who said that Nkrumah was "very definitely leaning toward the Soviet bloc"). Kennedy, Rusk & Co. chose to put the best possible light on Nkrumah's speech last week to the United Nations lending qualified support to the U.N.'s peace-seeking attempts in the Congo. Kennedy met Nkrumah at the airport, exchanged warm greetings, took him to the White House for "fruitful...
...before the cameras, including Morgan the Pirate, for which he is planning to bury $10,000 under Atlantic beaches and to invite all poor slobs with shovels to hunt the treasure. Drawing on the specialties of an aircraft company and a rug-weaving firm, he will produce a flying carpet that will bombard the world with sultanic adjectives describing Aladdin...