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...policies, could weigh the strengths, problems and needs of the nations and leaders he had just seen-many of them, such as West Germany's Konrad Adenauer and Nationalist China's Chiang Kaishek, his friends. High in the sky he could also slip into a sweater and carpet slippers, read his detective stories, sip rye on the rocks, play the inevitable backgammon with Janet, or make plans to stop off for a swim some place where there were good beaches, say Bermuda, Venezuela or Ceylon...
...carping about a couple of additional problems. For one thing, the nine-man Senate Office Building Commission had ordered two bronze plaques (total cost: $5,000), emblazoned with commission members' names, to be placed at each entrance. Worse, Douglas was alarmed at a $150,000 appropriation for new carpeting to cover the $100,000 rubber tile flooring. The committee explained that Government girls kept slipping on the tiles (TIME, May 11), rounded up a group of supporters who were promptly labeled "carpet-backers." Countered Douglas in the Senate last week: How about the 600 office doors that would have...
...total cost: $6,349,000) to the new Senate Office Building. The subway would save a mere 50-step walk for the Senators, said Douglas, who had paced it off-and the Senators needed the exercise. But as usual in such matters, the proposed economies were swept under the carpet, and the Douglas amendments were voted down...
...fall. Last May 30, as De Gaulle was conferring in his quarters at the Hôtel La Pérouse, where he had held court out of office almost every Wednesday for 13 years, his son-in-law rose, suspiciously examined a cornice, lifted a piece of carpet, and discovered microphones...
While the Germans are not eager for U.S. capital, most European companies (such as Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries, Holland's KLM) rolled out the red carpet. The analysts liked Holland and Germany best, particularly their electronic and chemical industries. France and Italy, they said, have too much government interference for most U.S. investors; Britain is suitable except where nationalization is a danger...