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Roly-poly Prime Minister Nazimuddin of Pakistan was leaving by the 5:30 train. The red carpet had been rolled out through Karachi station, but before Nazimuddin could put foot on it, he was called to the phone: Governor General Ghulam Mohammad had news for him. The news...
...Augusta National Golf Course, with its carpet-smooth greens, lush fairways and pitfall traps, was in fine shape for the Masters golf tournament. So were the Masters. The day before the tournament started, Lloyd Mangrum, golf's leading moneywinner, broke his own course record with a sensational 63, nine strokes under par. Defending Champion Sam Snead, who took the title away from Ben Hogan, fired a fine 71. U.S. Open Champion Julius Boros, who took that title away from Hogan in 1952, was at the peak of his game with...
Textiles. On 17.8% less sales, Celanese's net skidded from $24.8 to $9,200,000. Bigelow-Sanford's carpet business grossed 13% less ($67.3 million), and for the second year in a row it wound up in the red, though the loss had been cut from...
...this was a sudden and smart rebuff for the man who had twisted the tail of the British lion, stood steadfast against the pleadings of the mighty U.S., snatched Iran's caviar out of the mouths of the big Russians and made all Persia his flying carpet...
...Misalliance Shaw was even more unbridled than his characters : grown men claw the carpet in temper fits, airplanes fall out of the sky, pistols are cocked, china is smashed, women are chased through heather and hall. If family life has seldom been so discredited, it has seldom possessed such genuine if turbulent charm. Misalliance has, to be sure, its limitations. It could stand cutting; and though its method conquers the audience, in the end it defeats itself. The play can mean so many things that it really means nothing...