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After poking into corners, crawling under beds and tapping walls, the police were just about ready to leave when one of them found that a guest-room bed, while neatly made, was warm between the sheets. The room's carpet was loose in one corner. The cops pulled it up, yanked away some loose planking. There, in a two-foot-deep nook, lay a burly man dressed only in his underwear. "The jig's up," said he calmly. "I knew you were bound to find me some...
Barcelona spread out the purple carpet last week for the New York City Ballet. At the airport, young gallants deluged the American chicas with flowers, and tried to make dates. On opening night, sleek limousines brought an elegant throng to the 100-year-old Teatro del Liceo. All in all, the first continental venture of the New York City Ballet, if not entirely an artistic triumph by Spanish standards, was emphatically a social...
...book, in a chapter entitled "Boston Baked Beans and B-Girls," also discusses Jerome L. Rappaport '45 and the New Boston Committee. It states that the N.B.C. is "loaded with pinks, lefties, union overlords, and those who serve the underword, including a prominent dope peddler," and calls Rappaport a "carpet-bagger from New York," who, while at Harvard, founded the Harvard Law School Forum, "a nauseous and noisy organization of professional do-gooders...
...problems with the intensity of a stargazer. When concentrating, he often pops caramels into his mouth without thinking to take off the wrappers, has been known to eat the paper frills off lamb chops. Once, in a comparatively relaxed mood, Wood was playing cards with his son when the carpet caught fire from a live coal. Wood never noticed the flames, though they were right before his eyes...
...tall, gaunt man in a wide-brimmed hat, accompanied by his Russian-speaking daughter, climbed aboard a Soviet DC-3 in East Berlin one day last week and was whisked off to Moscow. There the Russians rolled out the Red carpet for their guest : 60-year-old Pastor Martin Niemoller, head of the German Evangelical Church in Hesse, World War I U-boat captain, onetime Hitler follower and then for eight years Hitler's personal prisoner. Niemöller's mission to Moscow was clothed in strictly clerical garb. He simply wanted, he said, to confer with leaders...