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...bathed; the dog just never gets dirty. In wet weather it is exercised on an outdoor run covered with clean, crushed rock; when the sun is out, it is allowed to romp on a carefully groomed lawn. Its pen has a radio to supply soothing music and a carpet of brown paper, not the usual shreds of newspaper, for newsprint might soil the poodle's coat...
...Security Check, a science-fiction writer is called on the carpet for his unwittingly explicit descriptions of spaceships and space weapons. He assumes his interrogators to be FBI agents, and they are-but not earth...
...romantic illusions is that they are a commonsensical people. English Author William Sansom-one of the best short-story writers now at work-is commonsensical enough to know this. His characters may be environed by a wilderness of asphalt, or by a sea of powder-blue wall-to-wall carpet, or by the price-tagged jungle of a department store; yet each embarks on a voyage of the spirit, with misery as the home port...
...views supporting manned bombers against guided missiles, said Godfrey, he has adopted a "self-imposed censorship" on his radio and TV shows. He admitted that his plans for the nation's defense-which he got down on hands and knees to illustrate with a table knife on the carpet -have already queered Godfrey himself with the Administration...
...coated Marine Corps band played in the front hall, where marble columns were decorated with vines, and the walls were lined with great banks of pink carnations. Greeting 93 big-name dinner guests, the Eisenhowers, with Elizabeth and Philip, led the formally dressed procession over a red carpet into the dining room. There a huge horseshoe table shone with the James Monroe gold flatware (engraved with "The President's House") and gold-rimmed service plates emblazoned with the President's seal. After dinner (chilled pineapple, cream of almond soup, broiled fillet of English sole, roast Long Island duckling...