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Wearing a lace-trimmed Ukrainian shirt, a light grey suit and a snapbrim straw hat, he advanced briskly over the red carpet to greet his host, President Sukarno, who, with a flashing smile, said: "You have a big job ahead of you. You'll have many hands to shake...
...Digest's scattergun criticism, the weighty economic report and Douglas' crusade against the plutogogues shattered any Republican dreams of coasting home in 1960 on the magic carpet of widely shared U.S. wellbeing. A major debate on the economy was abuilding; before it was ended, the G.O.P. might be hard pressed to prove that prosperity is more satisfying than Democratic promises...
Among the finest items: a bronze ritual vessel from China in the form of a rhinoceros, dating from the 12th century B.C.; a Mogul miniature painting of Krishna, tense as a strung bow, awaiting his beloved; and a fantastic carpet from 17th century Lahore (see color). The carpet begins at the top with peaceful scenes of partying, moves to a gazelle hunt, with swift cheetahs used as hunting dogs, and then explodes in a wild fantasy. While tigers watch, a giant griffin with an elephant's head ferociously descends on a circle of black elephants, but is itself swooped...
...whereabouts of ten men-and refusing, because of British diffidence and the exigencies of plot, to say why he needs the information. A few days later, the writer dies in a mid-ocean plane crash. To armchair hawkshaws, it will be as unmistakable as a corpse on a carpet that this is not coincidence. And when it turns out that most of the men on Adrian Messenger's list have died by violent accidents, even the authorities are clever enough to make the same deduction. The pages that follow are full of top-chop cloak-and-Luger writing...
After all the tumult of Asia, Dwight Eisenhower stepped out of his special train onto an enormous red carpet in Paris' Gare de Lyon to a reception correct in its pomp but cool in the reserve visible in the face of Charles de Gaulle. Despite their old acquaintance and friendship, the Presidents of France and the U.S. were cast willy-nilly as antagonists in the bitterest conflict in the history of the ten-year-old Atlantic alliance...