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Back from ten days on the Red red carpet, the nine-man delegation from the National Council of Churches issued a care fully drafted formal statement about their get-acquainted expedition to Russia (TIME, March 26): "The experience was profitable. We understand the Russian church men better as a result of our conversations . . . The most severe limitation of the church is in the area of education...
...available if he meets any further reverses. Senator Kefauver is as light as a cork. His only qualification is his ambition, which commends him to few besides himself. Governor Harriman is colorless. It begins to look as if the Democrats may have difficulty finding someone to stand on that carpet...
...girls have to nibble at par by polishing their approach shots. Their chip shots are deadly, and a delight to watch.) Evenings, for all the gin rummy games or the inevitable cocktail parties, the real pros still find it hard to relax. Given an open stretch of carpet, they are likely to grab a club and practice putting or swing at an imaginary ball...
...authority in an artillery battery. The trouble with Vierbein is that the mere sight of a corporal or a sergeant is enough to reduce him to terrified obedience. He is an unsoldierly-looking fellow with a built-in knack for getting into trouble (when he is detailed to beat carpets for the sergeant major's wife, she offers herself to him on a carpet just as her husband comes along). Inevitably, he is a butt for all the sadistic tricks that a bullying noncom can devise. He is brought to the brink of suicide...
...adman turned novelist, is set in the political outer space of 1960. The book's hero-heel is Blade Reade, a middle-aging boy genius who tries to keep his ulcer quiet and his three telephones busy. Blade paces the "deep veldt" of his office carpet during "Thinktime" and his mind crackles with "hot intuitive ideas busting loose like popcorn over a fast fire." As chairman of the Voters' Service Committee of the Republican Party, Blade needs a hot intuitive idea that will elect an amiable Midwestern boob named Henry Clay Adams...