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LEONCAVALLO: "The perfect selection for carpet sweeping is the chorus in the first act of I Pagliacci, which opens 'Din, don.' Although this chorus seems to be an effort to get everyone into church, I know it is for carpet sweeping because it is introduced by several vigorous 'Andiam's' intended to get me started...
Decked out in the latest in ventilated sports shoes, straw hats with foulard bands, tailored silk suits and open-weave summer shirts, a band of 13 men mushed across the thick carpet in the lobby of Los Angeles' flossy Sheraton-Town House Hotel last week for a three-day meeting...
...Hindu Kush blew across the grass runway of Kabul airport last week as a sleek Russian TU-104 jet airliner touched down, bringing slim, weathered King Mohammed Zahir Shah back from a 17-day state visit to Moscow, 2,000 miles away. The King stepped onto a Persian carpet and delivered a brief arrival speech. "The trip was most successful," he told the assembled dignitaries. "The hearts of the Russian people are full of friendship for Afghanistan...
Enchanted Haze. In Bristol, England, Sunday School Teacher Heather Sheppard, 23, frantically sent a friend back for something more suitable after she arrived at church for her marriage dressed in a beautiful bridal gown, veil and-carpet slippers...
...Shooters. Communist China rolled out the Red carpet for Singh, called him the "potential leader of Free Nepal." But suddenly he was dropped by the Communists (a casualty in Chou En-lai's new policy of coexistence with India), and at the Bandung Conference Chou En-lai agreed to return Singh and his followers to Nepal. Singh arrived in Katmandu to the sound of brass bands and cheering thousands, found that corruption and inefficiency in local government had enhanced the memory of him as a Robin Hood. To stimulate the legend of his past military feats, he took...