Word: carpeting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Recognizing the place was surprisingly easy. The awning above the entrance to the club is crimson. Inside, the carpet is crimson, the chairs are crimson, the lamps are crimson...
...every right to ask. All the chairs that were supposed to be in the 15th floor lounge of William James were out in the hall. All the tables (except the bar) were turned upside down. Instead of doing typical cocktail hour things, people were sitting on the carpet with their shoes off, laughing, drinking wine, eating bread, and beating out rhythms on upturned trash cans...
...moral burdens which rest upon every American." Ahead, at the monument, were other heroes, including Rock and Folk Performers Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie and some performers from Hair. There, it appeared that Police Chief Jerry Wilson's crowd estimate of 250,000 might be low. A solid, bundled carpet of humanity covered the cold, hard ground. Even at Wilson's figure, it was the biggest turnout of its kind that Washington had ever seen, exceeding even the 1963 civil rights rally, which took place on a pleasant August...
...modern oval desk in a palatial three-room suite of offices that he has taken over as board chairman of Norton Simon, Inc., a year-and-a-half-old concern formed from Canada Dry, Hunt Foods, McCall's and other companies. The place is plush?driftwood walls, deep-pile carpet. The whole bit. He smiles and says, "Let's go outside." I follow him into the Norton Simon garden, and he takes off his jacket and we walk among the sunlit ferns and flowers. "Why aren't you behaving like an executive?" I ask. "Haven't you heard of status...
Menacing Modernization. The unshaven, carpet-slippered petit commercant of legend is France's newest militant. Like the middle class in many other countries, he feels that he is not getting his due. The 2,500,000 shop owners and artisans account for almost one-fifth of the French working population -the highest proportion of self-employed in Europe. Their power was last harnessed in the mid-1950s, when a burly ex-bookseller named Pierre Poujade turned a tax protest into a movement strong enough to help topple the Fourth Republic...