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Score yourself an expert candidate-watcher if you identified the lint-ball roller as Muskie, the engine expert as Wallace, the sometimes trying spouse as Humphrey, the elephant memory as Nixon's and the spick-and-span man as Spiro Agnew...
...years No. 8 Schleichstrasse was like any other house on the suburban Bonn hillside called Venusberg. Everything was always spick-and-span, and from the kitchen came the odor of Bavarian stew. No. 8's occupant, a chubby, rumpled man with pink bulging face and bulging briefcase, went to the office each morning, returned each evening, like so many hard-working businessmen of the district...
...prison, Warden Jack Fogliani has set aside a whole tier of cells for Synanon. Occupying it are men who normally would be under maximum security. Yet this tier is the only one in which the cells are left unlocked at night. Each 4-ft. by 8-ft. cubicle is spick-and-span. On the walls, instead of calendar nudes, are reproductions of Van Gogh and art work done by the inmates. Neither Fogliani nor the prison guard captain visits the Synanon tier unless invited...
Many of them go about their appointed tasks in spick-and-span, air-conditioned surroundings as clean as a kitchen, as cloistered as a scientific laboratory. A rare marriage of scientific talent and hard-headed business know-how, General Dynamics employs one scientist for every five workers, has a roster of consultants that includes such greats as Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb, and Dr. Theodore von Karman, Caltech's brilliant mathematician and aerodynamicist...
Next day when Diem's C-47 touched down at Bangkok's spick-and-span military airport, the President disembarked to review the waiting honor guard, clad instead in his national Vietnamese dress: blue silk mandarin gown and black Tonkinese turban. The mandarin gown reflected more than a mere impulsive presidential whim: it symbolized a complicated and many-faceted change that has come about in President Diem's political thinking in recent months...