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This week he closed up the winter White House, climbed aboard the Magic Carpet-the Air Force's plush Constellation-and returned to Washington, after his longest vacation (30 days) since he took office as President five years ago this week...
...tidal wave off the Patagonian coast, spent weeks beating his way through the Strait of Magellan and fighting off marauding Tierra del Fuego Indians. One night, glassy-eyed from lack of sleep and unable to stand watch any longer, he went below for rest-after sprinkling the deck with carpet tacks that had been brought along for just such an emergency. The barefooted Fuegians came aboard at midnight. Reported the laconic Slocum: "The savages thought they 'had me,' sloop and all, but changed their minds when they stepped on deck...
...republican India. It took him 15 days by foot, horseback and palanquin over windswept ranges to reach an Indian railhead. A special train bore him on to New Delhi, where Nehru waited. In black cap and brown leather churidar, Rana stepped down onto a red carpet. He put his right foot first, to insure an auspicious beginning and end for his visit. Nehru welcomed him with the traditional Indian gesture of clasped hands. Twenty-one guns boomed a salute...
...wrote Masefield in his poem Biography (1912). Earlier in his life, when the formless urge to write had driven the young apprentice seaman from the sea he loved into a Yonkers, N.Y. carpet factory, Masefield had taken an even gloomier view. "It was most unlikely," he despaired, "that I should ever be able to write anything which anyone would print...
...donated to the British treasury. "It is the duty of every individual," the 82-year-old Queen Mother explained, "to contribute something directly to help the country in its need for dollars." Her patriotic duty done, Queen Mary added one proviso in the interests of posterity: whoever bought her carpet would have to agree to turn it over "eventually" to a public institution...