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...When he got to Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, Rademaekers was met by a male guide who, seeing only an American alight from the plane, said that they must wait for a Frenchman who was also due. After two hours of warmhearted brandy tippling at the airport with Georgians, who obviously wanted to show their fondness for Americans, Rademaekers was inspired to ask the name of the overdue French tourist. "Rade-mekus," said the guide. Thus Bill Rademaekers discovered that he was waiting for himself...
Last week the spark just happened to alight on Newark, for reasons that were not fully foreseeable beforehand nor easily explicable afterward. The city had seemed to be coping reasonably well with its problems. No objective analysis would have justified a prediction that Newark would be the scene of one of the biggest, bloodiest race riots of U.S. history. The event will-and should-haunt Newark, New Jersey, and the United States for a long time to come...
After a winter of dazzling success in alien waters. Radcliffe swimmers kept the competitive spirit alight in the annual interhouse Championship Swim Meet...
...Steal a Million. "It's only a day's work for you, but it's my first burglary," says Audrey Hepburn, her doe eyes alight with the giddy, girlish flame so often kindled in a very proper romantic heroine who has just discovered the joys of going gaily to hell...
Mustang after Mustang rolled down the Avenue of the Stars and up the gently curving driveway, past a sparkling fountain, to halt beneath the porte-cochere. On hand to help the guests alight were doormen rigged out in Beefeater suits. Inside, phalanxes of blonde, straight-haired teenagers, wearing tight pants and no shoes, padded noiselessly through the vast, thickly carpeted lobby. Standing by the automatic elevators were delicately feminine Japanese starters in long kimonos and obi sashes...