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...carpet spanned the sidewalk in front of London's Yugoslav Embassy. Sleek limousines nudged up to the curb through a cluttered street...
...Generals, jewel-studded swords; to their aides, watches and daggers. The monarch, according to old Arab custom, pressed his guests to stay at least three days. But the Generals were not on vacation. Two hours after their arrival they said farewell, climbed aboard their modern magic carpet, turned Cairoward...
Explained a tardy young typist when called on the carpet in one of Oslo's vast Nazi bureaus: "I cannot do without coffee." Snapped her Hitler-worshipping boss: "Henceforth, come five minutes early, repeat until opening time 'I can do without coffee. Heil Hitler.'" Chanted the typist dutifully each morning: "I can do without Hitler. Heil coffee...
Generals, brigadiers and colonels hopped briskly to one side as imperturbable British painters dragged their ladders, pails and paintpots through the busy halls of London's District Office Building. The painters set to work in a biggish, two-windowed room. First they covered the red-green-&-brown-speckled carpet with canvas, then slapped a coat of cream-colored paint on the walls and departed. Other workmen began moving in telephones and desks. Staff officers who took time to peek noted that there was ample floor space for a couple of comfortable chairs, ample wall space for outsize maps...
...married her two weeks after he met her. When he looked at her his amber-colored eyes warmed at the sight of her silvery beauty. When he saw her amazement at the museumlike rooms, where the antique chairs were like small islands on the ocean of faded carpet, his eyes danced with amusement. When he heard her give her first order to the maids-breakfast for him-he could not conceal his satisfaction with her progress. When, without knowing that she was doing it, she made simple, practical, New England suggestions for improving the plantation, he acted on her advice...